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    Q. What is full and holds more?
    A. A pot full of potatoes when you pour more water in.
    Q. A little round and white house and it is full of meat but has not doors or windows to let me in to eat?
    A. An egg.
    Q. I have a little sister she sits in the ditch and if you go near her she would give you the itch?
    A. A nettle.
    Q. What is it, it is as light as a feather and you could not hold it for a minute?
    A. Your breath.
    Q. Luke had it before, Paul had it behind, Mrs Mulligan had it twice in succession?
    A. The letter L.
    Q. Who is the slowest writer?
    A. The Confict. He sometimes spends 15 years on one sentence.
    Q. What was the first bet ever made?
    A. The Alphabeth.
    Q. Why should a judge be cold?
    A. Because he is just ice. (justice)
    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
    Informant
    Mary Cooke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Newtownpark, Co. Kildare