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School: Hackettstown (2)

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Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
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Anna Seabrooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 537

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    If a pheasant laid an egg on a ditch betweent two farmers which farmer owned the egg?
    Answer:- Neither. The bird.
    I went up the road, I went down the road and carried the road on my shoulder?
    Answer:- A ladder.
    As white as snow and it is not snow, as green as grass and it is not grass, as red as blood and it is not blood, as black as ink and it is not ink, what is it?
    Answer: A blackberry.
    What has a neck and no head?
    Answer:- A bottle.
    What cannot speak but yet requires many answers?
    Answer: A doorbell.
    Date:- 20th Dec. 1938.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Jane Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
    Informant
    Mrs R. Tutty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hacketstown, Co. Carlow