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School: Clonmellon (C.) (roll number 9501)

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Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Mrs O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0215

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    One sticks with a lick and the other licks with a stick.
    Why are the houses of bald people always the easiest to break into.
    Because their locks are few.
    The cross of a plough the kiel of a ship an a in the middle without any more, name me a village between Navan and Fore.
    Crosskiel.
    How many sides has a circle
    Two. the inside and the outside
    What is it that the man who makes never wants it and the man who wants it never see it. A coffin.
    If someone built a wall from Dublin to Belfast what height would it be.
    The height of nonsense.
    When is a ship like snow.
    When it is a drift.
    What county fits in a bottle
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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
    Olive Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath