School: Clonmel Convent (roll number 12180)

Location:
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Sr M. Peadar
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    down chip-cherry all the men in the town could not climb chip-cherry.
    Answer: The smoke.
    What has four legs and one foot?
    Answer:-A bed.
    Black and white and read all over.
    Answer:- A news-paper
    As green as grass as red as fire and as black as ink?
    Answer:- A blackberry.
    I went to the wood for a load of timber, I did
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eily Casey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonmel, Co. Tipperary