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School: Foxrock (St Brigid's)

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Foxrock, Co. Dublin
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S. Ní Mhaolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0799, Page 7

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    48. What coat has no buttons?
    A coat of paint.
    49. A house full, a room full,
    And cannot get a spoonful.
    Room full of smoke.
    50. Which is the grey goose or the white goose the gander>
    Neither.
    51. Chip, chop cherry. All the men in Derry
    Could not climb to the top of chip chop cherry
    Smoke.
    52. What is it that gets bigger the more you take from it?
    A pit.
    53. What fruit is always on a penny?
    The Date.
    54. Why does a donkey eat thistles?
    Because he is an ass.
    55. If I were in the sun and you were out of it. What would the sun be?
    Sin (if 'i' were in it and 'u' were out of it.
    Where did the cock crow that all the world heard him?
    In the ark.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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