School: Woodland (roll number 8464)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   (When it is in the barrell)
   13 Spell a red running rogue in three letters (Fox)
   14 What would give twice as much milk as a cow?
   (Two cows)
   15 Sitting on my hunkers, looking through my winkers, watching the dead burying the living.
   (Dead coals burying the living coals)
   16 What walks on their head all day?
   (Nails in the sole of your boot)
   17 Three men ate six potatoes what is the number of their motor car? (386)
   18 Spell black water with three letters (Ink)
   19 What is the difference between a jeweller and a man that watches prison?
   (One sells watches and the other watches cells)
   20 What did the man say when he cut the dog's tail.
   (It will not be long now)
   21 What is the difference between a postage stamp and a cross school-masher?
   (One sticks with a lick and the other licks with a stick)
   22 What is white and read all over?
   (A newspaper)
   23 Londonderry, Cork and Kerry spell that without a K.
   (that)
   24 As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives. Every wife had seven sacks, every sack had seven cats. Every cat had seven kits, Kits, cats, sacks, wives

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Montgomerery

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Loughnagin, Co. Donegal