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1. Tomhaiseanna (continued)

   

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   Q What's the difference between A and B
   A You open your mouth to A and close it to B
   Q What's always behind the time.
   A The back of a clock
   Q What's in all day and out all night.
   A A door.
   Q It's in the rock but not the stone it's in the marrow but not the bone, it's in the church but not the steeple it's in the children but not in the people.
   A The letter R
   Q When has a man to keep his word
   A When no one will take it.

   

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2. Tomhaiseanna

   

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   Q. What is that, that never was nor never will be A. A mouse's nest in a cat's ear. Q.It goes round the wood and round the wood and leaves a white rag on ever bush. A. The snow. Q. Patches upon patches without any stitches. A. A head of cabbage. Q. As I went across a London bridge I met a London scholar. I took out my pen and drew his name what was his name. A. Andrew. Q. Where did the cock crow when all the world heard. A. In Noe's Ark.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Mac Donnell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Annagh, Co. Mayo