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School: Valleymount

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Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Dll. Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0917, Page 154

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    One longs to eat and the other eats too long?
    4. If a tongs and a fire shovel cost three halfpence what would a ton of coal come to?
    Ashes
    5. If it took two yards of stuff to make a shirt what would it take to open a shop?
    A key
    6. A man visiting a little boy in Hospital was asked by the nurse what relation was the boy to him. The man replied:-
    Sisters and Brothers I have none but that boys father was my fathers son
    What was the relationship?
    He was the boys father.
    7. What has no wings and can fly?
    Dust
    8. What is the lightest street in Ireland
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Valleymount, Co. Wicklow