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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 that contented men desire, that poor men have, that the rich desire, that the spender saves, that the saver spends and that everyone takes to their grave?
    Answer: Nothing.
    As I lloked out my window, I saw a rinkum pinkum stealing away my fine complaney. But if I had my ransum chansum I would shoot the rinkum pinkum who was stealing away my fine complaney?
    Answer: A fox stealing a goose.
    The leaper of ditches, the knocker of thorns the little brown cow without any horn?
    Answer: A hare.
    As I went up a hill of wonders, I came down a hill of thunders, twenty four blackbirds, and they tearing the world assunder?
    Answer: A harrow.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Timmy Griffin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tiershanaghan, Co. Kerry