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School: Tuar an Fhíona, Baile na Molt (roll number 8133)

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Tooraneena, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Nóra Nic Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0647, Page 71

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    What is half the moon like?
    The other half.
    It is full of holes and yet holds water.
    A sponge.
    What is it that is black and white and read all over?
    A newspaper.
    What is the smallest bridge in the world?
    The bridge of your nose.
    Forty sheep went out a gap, twenty white and twenty black, four and seven, twice eleven, three and two, how many is that?
    Five.
    Why is a July sun like a sixpence?
    Because it is a tanner.
    The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.
    What would you fill a barrel with to make it lighter?
    Holes.
    Ink bink under a bank, ten drawing four.
    A person milking a cow.
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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)
    Languages
    Irish
    English
    Collector
    Eilís Ní Chadhla
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynamult, Co. Waterford
    Informant
    Cailíní na Scoile
    Relation
    Not a relative
    Address
    Ballynamult, Co. Waterford