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School: Bouleenshere (B.), Baile Thaidhg, Tráighlí (roll number 12864)

Location:
Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Jeremiah M. Healy
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    What is it you would not like to have and if you had it you would not give it away for all the world ?
    Answer: A bald head.
    It is neither, fish, flesh, feather, nor bone, and still it has five fingers ?
    Answer: A glove.
    I went up the bohereen, I came down the bohereen, and I brought the bohereen on my back ?
    Answer: A ladder.
    As sound as a marble as deep as a cup and all the King's horses could not pull it up ?
    Answer: a pump.
    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
    Tom Supple
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyronan, Co. Kerry