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School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)

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Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
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  1. A Collection of Riddles

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    A Collection of Riddles
    22. 6. 38
    How would you save your sole?
    By walking in your heels.
    What is the smallest bridge in the world?
    The bridge of your nose.
    What smells most in a chemists shop?
    The nose.
    I have a horse with a iron throat as fast as he will trot he will ate the rope.
    A sewing machine.
    What is the difference between a baby in bed and a sailor in the ocean?
    One makes his bed in the ocean while the other makes his ocean in the his bed.
    Keep me clean and I am everyone, scratch my back and I am no body.
    A mirror.
    Why must everybody go bed?
    Because the bed will not come to them.
    What is the first you do when you go
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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
    Nora Breen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Doonasleen East, Co. Cork