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School: Baile Mac Rabhartaigh (roll number 3978)

Location:
Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Fiannaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 165

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    What is that which a cat has, but no other animal has?
    Answer, kittens
    What author was never slow? Answer, Swift.
    In what month do women talk least?
    Answer, February, the shortest month.
    Which country ought to be the richest in the world?
    Answer, Ireland because its capital is Dublin
    What is full of holes, and yet holds more?
    Answer. A sponge.
    What is that which you can keep, after giving it to someone else?
    Answer, your word.
    What town is drawn more frequently than any other?
    Answer, Cork.
    What turns without moving?
    Answer, milk.
    Whose eye never sheds a tear?
    Answer, a needles.
    Why is life like riddles?
    Answer, because you must give it up.
    What man is always on strike?
    Answer A Blacksmith
    Where was the first potato found?
    Answer, in the ground.
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    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
    Children in fifth and sixth classes