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School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)

Location:
Meenbane, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seosamh Mac Coluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 387

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    Fifty pairs of trousers.
    9. What is the smallest County in Ireland?
    Cork because it can go into a bottle.
    10. What people never live long?
    Dwarfs
    11. What has many eyes and cannot see you nor your friend?
    A potato
    12. There was a man who had no eyes, he went into a garden where there were no trees, he spied a tree with apples on it, he took no apples off it, not he left no apples on it?
    This man had only one eye, he went into a garden where there was one tree, with two apples on it, he took one apple off and left one apple on.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mac Namee
    Gender
    Female