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School: Muine Mór (roll number 13456)

Location:
Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Liam Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 327

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    Q. What thing if you even name you will break?
    A. Silence
    Q. When a clock strikes thirteen what time is it?
    A. Time to have the clock repaired
    Q. Who may marry many a wife and yet live single all his life?
    A. A priest
    Q. What month do women talk the least.
    A. February the shortest month.
    Q. What is brought to the table cut and never eaten?
    A. A pack of cards.
    Q. What stands outside and eats inside?
    A. A cow eating out of a tub.
    Q. What smells the most in a greengrocers?
    A. Your nose.
    Q. what is every side of you and you would not live three minutes without it?
    A. Air
    Q. A bridge across a lake without a stick or stone?
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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 A. Mc Partlin
    Gender
    Female