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School: Crannach, Inis

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Cranny, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 112

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    A Because when it rises it is light.
    Q When does a chair dislike you
    A When it cant bear you.
    Q When is a farmer cruel to his corn.
    A When he treshes it
    Q What orders do we like to get?
    A Postal Orders
    Q What crosses a river without a sound
    A A Shadow
    Q What goes up when the rain comes down.
    A A umbrella.
    Q Which is the best key to unlock the tongue
    A Whiskey.
    Q What is it that has a round head and stands on one leg
    A A head of cabbage.
    Q What is it that never was or never will be.
    A A mouse's nest in a cat's car.
    Q What has a tongue and cant speak.
    A A Shoe.
    Q What is the best to put in a cake
    A Your teeth
    Q What is the hardest key to turn
    A The donkey.
    Q There was a fair maid in a garden the first day of her life she became a man's wife and she died before
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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
    Mary Keane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cross More, Co. Clare