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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 246

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Tired a horse and worried a man
    Tell me this riddle if you can?
    A Saddle
    What weight is the moon?
    One hundredweight (it has four quarters)
    Why does a dog wag his tail?
    Because no one will wag it for him
    Why does a hen cross a road?
    To get to the other side
    Which does a Protestant Bishop or a Catholic Bishop wear the biggest hat?
    Whichever has the biggest head
    The man that made it never used it. The man that used it never saw it?
    A coffin
    Old Mrs Twitches had but one eye,
    And a long tail which she let fly,
    And every time she went through a gap,
    She left a bit of her tail caught in a trap?
    A needle and tread.
    If a man had forty patches on his coat what time would it be?
    Time for him to get a new one.
    Twenty eight white calves standing in a stall. Up came a red woman and fed them all?
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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
    Joseph Perkins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Merginstown, Co. Wicklow