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School: Clinstown (roll number 4193)

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Clintstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
S. Ó Dúnlaing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 481

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Q. What is it that stands on one leg and has it's heart in it's body?
    A. A head of cabbage.
    Q. As I was passing up by a wall, I saw a man and he gave a call, his beard was flesh and his mouth was horn, and such a man was never born?
    A. A cock crowing.
    Q. As I went out in a sloppy gap, I met my uncle Davie, I cut off his head and I drank his blood and left his body easy?
    A. A bottle of wine.
    Q. Twenty sick (six) sheep went out in a gap one died how many came back?
    A. Nineteen.
    Q. Forty sheep went out in a gap, twenty white and twenty black, six and seven twice eleven, three and two how many is that?
    A. Five.
    Q. Why does a cow look over a ditch?
    A. Because she can't look under it.
    Q. A little thing, a little thing not as big as a mouse, and it has more windows than are on the King's house?
    A. A thimble.
    Q. As I went out in a sloppy gap, I met my auntie Kitty, she has two eyes and an iron nose and 'ponmy
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Mc Evoy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ardaloo, Co. Kilkenny