School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)

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   197 Q. What is it that the train has and cannot do without it? A. The noise. 198 Q. How many hairs are in a cat's tail? A. None. 199 Q. What is it you get, you [give?] in, you take out, you light, you quench, and then put in your pocket.? A. A cigarette 200 Q. Smoke in a glen with no fire in it, what's that? A. A fog.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Antony Turbitt

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim

2. Riddles

   

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   Antony Turbitt,
   Main St.,
   Ballinamore,
   Standard VI.

   Q. How is Athens like the wick of a candle?
   A. Because it is in Greece.
   Q.As I looked out on my gable window I lost my gable ring. I saw the dead carrying the living. Wasn't that a wonderful thing?
   A. A ship and its crew.
   Q. What is like one half of the moon?
   A. The other half.
   Q. Two legs sitting on three legs, in come four legs and snap down one leg, up jump two legs and throws three legs at four legs.
   A. A woman sitting on a stool, in comes a dog and snaps the leg of mutton. Up jumps the woman and throws the stool at the dog.
   Peter Galligan, Dromore.

   

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