School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)

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   A man and woman were walking together one day. They met a man who said to the woman "Is your companion a relation of your's." She answered - Brothers or sisters I have none, but this man's father was my grandfather's son. What relation was he to her? "A first cousin".

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   I have a little house. A mouse would not fit in it, and all the men in Ireland would not count all the windows in it? "A thimble". A duck before two ducks. A duck behind two ducks. A duck in the middle between two ducks. How many ducks all together? "Three". If you took off the top of an egg what is left? "Gg". Where did Noe strike the first nail in the Ark? "On the head". Make one hundred and eighty one less than twenty by adding one figure to it. "Eighteen and a half". What is that that is very often brought to the table; always cut but never eaten.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sheila Griffin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Laragh and Ross, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mr James Griffin

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male