School: Irishtown

Location:
Milltown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Margaret McNally
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  1. What goes the quickest heat or cold.
    Ans. Heat because you can catch cold.
    As I looked out on the window I saw the white eating the white and I sent the white to chase the white.
    Ans. A White goat eating a white head of cabbage and I sent a white goat to chase it.
    How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and his dog.
    Ans. two.
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    What county fits in a bottle.
    Ans Cork.
    Constantinople is a large word if you cannot spell it you a big dunce.
    Ans it.
    What has a head a foot and four legs.
    Ans A bed.
    Chip chop cherry all the men in Derry could not climb chip chop cherry.
    Ans Smoke.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phyllis Reilly
    Gender
    Female