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School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)

Location:
Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 218

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A: A girl crossing a bridge over a river with a pail of water on her head
    Q: What bears without a blossom
    A: A crook
    Q: The King of Morocco built a ship, An in the ship his daughter sat, An I'll be blamed for telling her name, An there's three times I have told it
    A: Anne
    Q: If I had ten sons and each son had a sister how many children would I have
    A: Eleven
    Q: What has a head and can't get a hat to fit it
    A: Bray Head
    Q: Why are tall people more (modest) lazy than short ones
    A: Because they are always longer in bed
    Q: Why is a baker a foolish fellow
    A: Because he parts with all he needs (kneads)
    Q: When is a rock not a rock
    A: When it is a shamrock
    Q: Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you must guess for ever and you won't guess that
    A: A pipe
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Faughnan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim