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School: Luggacurran (2), Stradbally (roll number 16576)

Location:
Luggacurren, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Mrs. Delaney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0837, Page 310

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    Riddes
    leather horns.
    A. A hare.
    Q. As I went out a guttery gap I met my uncle Davy, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body lying easy?
    A. A Bottle of Whiskey.
    Q. What is it that the Rich man wants: the Poor man has; and the Miser throws away?
    A. Nothing.
    Q. What goes most against a farmer's grain?
    A. His Reaper.
    Q. What is always ashamed to show its face?
    A. A Clock.
    Q. Old Mother Twitcher had but one eye, and a long tail, which she lets fly and every time she goes over the gap she leaves a piece of her tail in the trap.
    A. A Needle and thread
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English