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School: Baile an Churraigh

Location:
Ballincurry, Co. Galway
Teacher:
A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 323

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  1. Riddles

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    1. Black and white and red all over?
    A Newspaper
    2. How many sides on a bucket?
    Two sides
    3. What makes red redder?
    der
    4. What trees have fire no effect on?
    Ashes
    5. How would you make a 1,000 out of
    eight eights?
    8
    8
    8
    8 8
    8 8 8
    ------------
    1000
    6. If there was a wall between Tommie
    Keaveney and John Rorke & a
    Peacock came & laid eggs on it who
    would the eggs belong to?
    A Peacock couldn't lay eggs.
    7. Jimmy Waldron was a
    nightwatchman. The ganger told him
    he was going to Dublin. "Do not"
    said Jimmy, "I dreamt last
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    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 Hurley
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Keaveney
    Gender
    Male