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School: Latsey

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Latsey, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Jean Paul
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    What is full and holds more?
    A pot of potatoes.
    What letter does a (bling) blind woman like best?
    A, for it makes her hear.
    What grows in the wood and sounds in the town, and earns a poor begger many a pound?
    A fiddle.
    What is the hardest key to turn?
    A donkey.
    What goes between two woods and comes back between two water?
    A man fetching a bucket of water in wooden buckets.
    How would you make money go as far as possible?
    By giving it to foreign missions.
    Give the three degrees of getting on in the world
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jim Gibson
    Gender
    Male