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School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)

Location:
Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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    1. As I went up a boreen I carried the boreen on my back. (a ladder)
    2. What has teeth and cannot eat. (a saw)
    3. Two ducks before a duck, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle (three ducks)
    4. Why does a hen pick a pot. (because she cannot lick it)
    5. What is the different between a schoolmaster and an engine drive (One minds the train and the other trains the mind)
    6. A little red man with
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    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
    Bridget Connill
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thady Searry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Tooreen, Co. Galway