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Termon, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0980, Page 078

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  2. Riddles

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    Mary Smith Derryham
    Born on the 29th June 1855
    1. What's full but still holds more
    Ans. a pot of potatoes when you pour water in.
    2. a houseful a roomful you couldn't catch a spoonful (smoke)
    3. A leaper of fences a crapper of thorns a Bonnie brown Cow with a leather pair of horns. (A hare)
    4. How many peas (p) in a pint.
    (one p)
    5. What goes up the stairs and its head down ( A stud in your shoe)
    6. Enough for one too much for two nothing for three takes one to make and two to keep ? - A secret.
    7. What's black and white and red (read) all over? - The newspaper.
    8. In what month do babies talk.
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