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School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)

Location:
Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 365

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    Q. Patches on patches without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy a pair of breeches.
    A. A head of cabbage
    Q. As I looked out of my grandmothers window I saw four and twenty bull-dogs taring the word asunder.
    A. A harrow
    Q. Twenty white horses in a stall up comes a red one and licks them all.
    A. Your teeth and tongue
    Q. What is neither flesh nore bone and has four fingers and a thumb.
    A. A glove
    Q. Why is a boy like a cake
    A. A little beating makes him better
    Q. In what month do women talk the most
    A. February. (the shortest)
    Q. As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the kings
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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
    Moya Scully
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Elizabeth O' Toole
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    60
    Address
    Scotland, Co. Carlow