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School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)

Location:
Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 228

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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    34 What is the shiest thing in the house?
    The clock.
    35 What part of a cow goes over a ditch the first?
    Her breath.
    36 I have a little man, he stands by the wall, he drinks all he gets and eats none at all.?
    A pump.
    37 Betty inside the ditch and Betty outside the ditch and if you touch Betty she'll bite you.?
    A nettle.
    38 If there were two black men in a motor car and the two black men ate one white man , what was the number of the motor car?
    Two ate one.
    39 The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it?
    A coffin.
    40 What goes from Cork To Dublin without ever stirring?
    The railway line
    41 if it takes twenty minutes to wash a child , what would it take to dry it?
    A towel.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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