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School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)

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Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 227

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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    24. As I looked up high ways and I looked down low ways I saw Kitty Smeg eating white snow balls. A goat eating a head of white cabbage.
    25. What is it that can go up the chimney down but can't go down the chimney up? An umbrella.
    26. Long legs crooked thighs, small head and no eyes. A tongs.
    27. It went to America and it stopped there. It came home again for it did not go there. A watch.
    28. There was a fiddler in Doon who had a fiddler a brother in Newport, and the fiddler in Newport had no brother a fiddler in Doon.
    It was his sister who was the fiddler in Doon.
    29. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire. A cake in an oven.
    30. How many cow's tails would reach the moon?
    One, if it was long enough.
    31. Why is a proud young lady compared to a drunkard?
    Because both are fond of the glass.
    32. I have a little house in Keeper hill, it is red inside
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