School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   If an Irish man had a peacock and if he laid an egg in an English man's field, which of them would own the egg.
   A peacock lays no eggs

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   What has a neck and a body and nothing else
   A bottle
   What is a lay always looking for and never hopes to find
   A hole in her stocking
   Whey does a hen cross the road
   To go to the other side

   

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   As I went out a garden gap I met Dick with a red cap a stick in his hand a stone in this throat riddle me that and I will give you a groat - a cherry If a tongs and poker cost sixpence what would a ton of coal amount to - ashes As I went up a hill I saw the world's wonder, twenety-four bull dogs tearing the hill asunder

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ned Bargary

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs Bargary

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   38

   Address

   Cill Fhiacal, Co. Thiobraid Árann