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School: Cooley

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Cooly, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 355

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    20. There was a man of Adam's race he lived in a certain place neither in heaven nor in hell nor where no other man could dwell?
    In purgatory.
    21. What is the most useful thing in the house but least thought of?
    The tea cloth.
    22. What part of a fish weighs most?
    The scales.
    23. What does an artist like to draw best?
    His salary.
    24. What is it that no one has ever seen before?
    A dog's tail.
    25. What can you knit without knitting needes?
    Your brows.
    26. What runs fast but has no legs?
    A tap.
    27. What is that which you and every living person has seen but will never see again?
    Yesterday.
    28. Spell black water with three letters?
    Ink.
    29. Why does a dog go round and round in his bed before he lies down?
    Because he does not know the head of the bed by the foot of it.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Logue
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballylawn, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr John Logue
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballylawn, Co. Donegal