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School: Killymarley (roll number 15398)

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Killymarly, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0957, Page 371

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    The full of a field of white calves and a red calf among them
    - The teeth and tongue.
    A messenger from house to house. And he is outside in the night
    - A road.
    What grows in the wood
    And sounds in the town
    And earns his master
    Many a pound
    - A fiddle.
    What's full and holds more?
    - A pot of potatoes. what can be put into it.
    What is it that never gets out of its bed?
    - A river.
    Why are cheap stockings like mice?
    Because they quickly go into holes.
    When is a cup of tea very sad?
    - When it is upset.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Jackson
    Gender
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