School: An Teampoll Geal, Ceapach Chuinn (roll number 3549)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   Ans. twice the length of half of it.

   What is full and holds more?
   Ans. A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.

   Ink under a bank ten drawing four
   Ans. A person milking a cow

   What always walks with its head down
   Ans. A nail in your boot

   As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all
   Ans. the sun

   Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more again with that twenty-seven twice eleven three and two, how much is that
   Ans. Five

   I have a little man above in the field; when I pull his leg his nose will bleed
   Ans. A pump

   

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   “Once upon a time there lived a very poor man whose name was Long John.”

   

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   Once upon a time there lived a very poor man whose name was Long John. One day his wife told him that she could not keep him no longer. Next day he went to seek work. John was not able to do any work. He went to a farmer and asked for work. The farmer told him to tackle the horses. He put the winkers on the horse's tail and the straddle on his head. When the farmer came out and saw what John had done he told him to be off at once. John came home. His wife asked him did he get any work. He told her he

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen O' Brien

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Canty, Co. Waterford

   Informant

   John Foley

   Relation

   Not a relative

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   45

   Address

   Canty, Co. Waterford