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School: Carra

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Carha, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 398

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    20. Which is the bravest bird in the wood.?
    Answer = The crow, because he never shows a white feather.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Riddles

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    1. Who is the heaviest man in the world? Answer.= Lipton because if his lip was cut off it would make a ton.
    2. What is it that hates you, and you cannot do without it?
    Answer.= A fire.
    3. There was a man dyeing, and the more he dyed, the better he lived?
    Answer.= He was dyeing clothes.
    4. What beam do they never put in a house?
    Answer.= A sun-beam.
    5. As I was passing through Derry wall, I heard a man giving a call his body was flesh and his mouth was horn, and such a man was never born?
    Answer.= A cock.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tony Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dooyeaghny or Cloonloughan, Co. Mayo