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School: Gurteen (roll number 586)

Location:
Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Richard B. Bracken
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 267

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  1. Local Riddles (continued)

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    Q. - What is the difference between a lamp post and a bottle of castor oil?
    A. - One is hard to get up and the other is hard to get down.
    Q. - Broken-backed father
    Big belly Mother
    Three little children like one another?
    A. - A pot
    Q. - Spell black water in three letters?
    A. - Ink.
    Q. - Spell red rogue in three letters?
    A. - A fox.
    Q. - Jenny in the ditch
    Jenny out of the ditch
    And if you touch Jenny
    He will bite you?
    A. - Nettles
    Q .- As I went out a slippery sloppery gap
    I met my uncle Davie
    He had an iron nose and timber toes
    And 'pon my word he would frighten the crows?
    A. - A gun.
    Q. - Which County in Ireland is the lightest?
    A. - Down.
    Q. - Around the house and around the house
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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
    John Sharkey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
    Collector
    Margaret Rigney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs William Sharkey
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Address
    Clongowna, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr William Rigney
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Gurteen, Co. Tipperary