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School: Kilsaran (roll number 14207)

Location:
Cill Sáráin, Co. Lú
Teacher:
P. Ó Corragáin
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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    you a penny? -
    A Haw
    5. Walk's on its head all day and sleeps under the bed at night.-
    A nail in a man's boot
    6. Three legs and cannot walk two ears and cannot hear a big mouth and cannot talk -
    A Pot
    7. What is it that goes to the is cut and never eaten?
    - A pack of cards
    8. What is three letters makes a girl a woman?
    - A G E (age)
    9. Twenty four white sheep standing in a stall up comes a red one and licks them all -
    Your tongue and teeth

    10. Is round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the kings horses could not pull it up?
    -A Well
    11. White and black and red all over?
    -A newspaper
    12. What is it that goes to the table?
    12. What is it that the more you take from it the longer it gets?
    -A Grave
    13. If it took a yard and a half to make a waistcoat, what would it take to make a suit?
    - A Tailor
    Written by
    Patrick Traynor
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Traynor
    Gender
    Male