School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)

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   229. Why is a philanthropist like a van horse?
   ( He always stops at the sound of woe)
   230.Why is the first chick of a newly- hatched brood like a foremast of a vessel?
   (Because it is forward to the main hatch)
   231. When does a cow become landed property ?
   (when it is turned into a field)
   232. What word in the English language is both sweet and sour?
   (Tart)
   233.What insect lives on nothing?
   (A moth, because it eats holes)
   234.Which burns longer, a wax or a tallow candle?
   (Neither , they both burn shorter)
   235.Name the most fragile race of men.
   ( Chinamen)
   236. Which is the best way to swallow a door?
   (Bolt it)
   237. Why is cow's tail like a swan's breast?
   (It grows down)
   238. Why is the letter w like a scandalmonger?
   ( It makes ill will)
   239.In one word express having encountered a doctor of medicine?
   ( Metaphisician)
   240. Why are duels very brief affairs?
   ( Because it requires only two seconds to arrange them)
   241. When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye?
   ( When he has vacancy for a pupil)
   242.What goes most against the farmer's grain?
   ( A reaping machine)

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tomás Ó Cléirigh

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Annefield, Co. Mayo