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School: Faythe Convent, Loch gCarman (roll number 11361)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0881, Page 419

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Fifty.
    What cost does not need a button?
    A coat of paint.
    What goes up stairs every morning black and white and comes down red all over?
    The news paper.
    It is made of wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound?
    A fiddle.
    What is it that you can keep, after giving it to someone else?
    Your word.
    What is used all day and left in a corner a night?
    A broom.
    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
    Peggy Nolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Mrs Nolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Wexford, Co. Wexford