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School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum

Location:
Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
Teachers:
Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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    Riddles.
    There was a little house a mouse could not live in it and all the men in town could not count how many windows in it.
    A thimble.
    What has a mouth and no tongue.
    A river.
    Patches upon patches without stitches,
    A head of cabbage.
    Benny O'Leary 21st December
    Ballinatone
    Rathdrum
    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
    Benny O' Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow

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    Why are ripe potatoes in the ground like thieves.
    Because they ought to be taken up.
    Cecil Ireland 21st December
    Whaley Abbey
    Rathdrum
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    If a poker, shovel and tongs cost £1..0.0 what will a ton of coal come to.
    Come to ashes.
    What is the first thing a gardener plants in his garden
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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