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School: Géag (C.), Baile na Muc (roll number 13306)

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Gaigue, Co. Longford
Teacher:
Máire Ní Mhurchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 215

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What sleeps with its finger in its eye?
    The crook.
    What city can you pit in a bottle?
    Cork
    What goes with the train, comes with the train, and the train cannot go without it?
    Noise
    Why is the horse wiser than a fox?
    Because a horse can run out of a trap and a fox can't.
    On what day of the year does a woman talk the least?
    The shortest day of the year.
    What is it, that you and every living person has seen, but will never see again?
    Yesterday
    How many Christmas days are there more than Easter Sundays?
    Thirty-three.
    Twelve crows on a wall five were shot, how many were left on the wall?
    None when they saw the other five being
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosaleen Mc Entee
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballinamuck, Co. Longford
    Informant
    Mrs R. Mernash
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    78
    Address
    Ballinamuck, Co. Longford