School: Ceis (roll number 15342)

Location:
Kesh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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    four?
    Answer,= A person milking a cow.
    (32) Question - A bannock of bread, a sheet full of crumbs riddle me that and I'll give you some plums?
    Answer = The moon and the stars.
    (33) Question - What town in Ireland does a child in district call?
    Answer,= Omagh.
    (34) Question-, What is the weight of the moon?
    Answer,= four quarters/
    (35) Question,= Spell blind pig?
    Answer = [g. becuse a blind pig has no eyes.
    (36_ Question = If you went tot own riding on a donkey where would you get down?
    Answer = On a goose.
    (37) Question = What God never saw and seldon the King we see it often?
    Answer = An Equal.
    (38) Question = A useful (useful) instrument. Once its bought it's never lent. The man that owns it never knows it and the man that knows it never owns it?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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    English