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School: Templeorum, Piltown (roll number 6289)

Location:
Templeorum, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
P. Hickey
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  1. Riddles

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    Black and white and red all over.
    Answer = A Newspaper.
    What goes up when the rain comes down.
    Answer = An Umbrella.
    When is a cow not a cow.
    Answer = When she is turned into a field.
    Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four.
    Answer = A Woman milking a cow.
    What gets bigger the more you cut off it.
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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
    Nellie Culleton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ashtown, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    George Culleton
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ashtown, Co. Kilkenny