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School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)

Location:
Fahan Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
R. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 523

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    As I looked out my grandfathers window I saw the dead carrying the living?
    Answer: A ship.
    What goes round the tree, and round the tree, and never gets into the heart of the tree?
    Answer: The bark.
    Why is a rug like a bottle of medicine?
    Answer: One has to be taken up and shaken, the other has to be shaken up and taken.
    What does a sparrow be angry if you called him a pheasant?
    Answer: Because you would be making game of him.
    A hard working father
    A lazy mother
    Twelve children, and a white-washed floor?
    Answer: A clock
    As I went over the sea sand
    I fell and broke my knee band
    All the doctors in sea sand
    Couldn't cure my knee band?
    Answer: An egg
    A house full of roomful
    Couldn't lift a spoonful?
    Answer: Smoke.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Lindsay
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Buncrana, Co. Donegal