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School: Cill Chonaill (B) (roll number 14377)

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Kilconnell, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Riobárd Ó Séaghdha
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    legs and brought back one leg?
    A. A dog and a leg of mutton.
    Q. Fire under fire over and never [touches] the fire?
    A. Bake it the oven.
    Q A flock of white sheep on a red hill here they go. there they go and they never stand still?
    A Teeth in your gums.
    Q What is the most useless thing in a motor car, and it cannot go [withdoubt] it?
    A noise
    Q Four feet, a head and a foot?
    A. A bed.
    Q [Hoddy] [doddy] a round black body three feet a wooden hat?
    A A pot
    Q What is too short and when you cut a bit off it it is long enough?
    A A grave.
    Q Father, Mother, Sister, Brother [runing] all day and can not catch one and other?
    A Four wheels under a motor-car
    Q Three fourths of a cross and a circle complete, two semi-circles and a perpendicular standing to meet, a triangle standing on two legs so neat two semi-circle and a circle complete
    A TABACCO Patrick Dooley 27.9.'38
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Dooley
    Gender
    Male