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School: Oulart (roll number 15419)

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Oulart, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 308

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    to make it long and put a bit onto it to make it short
    A. A grave
    Q. What wets itself when it dries
    A. A towel.
    Q. Four iron bars ten to attend them going all around until the work is ended.
    A. A woman knitting a stocking
    Q. If you got up on an ass what would you get down off
    A. A goose
    Q. Why do you go to bed.
    A. Because the bed wont come to you
    Q. What is the difference between a lady and a twopenny stamp
    A. One is a mail -fee and the other is a female.
    Q. What is the difference between a bottle of stout and a policeman
    A. One would knock you down and the other would pick you up
    Q. As I went out in a gap I met a man with a red cap a stick in his hand and a stone
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