School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)

Location:
Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Susan Mary Irwin
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    65. What have you got? You didn’t use it but everyone else uses it for you?
    -name.
    66. A little white and round house,
    And it is full of meat.
    But it has no doors or windows
    To let me in to eat.
    -An egg.
    67. Whitie and blackie went over the hill.
    Blackie came back but whitie stayed still.
    -hen & egg.
    68. What turns without moving?
    -Milk
    69. Wee Jenny Huddle sits in her puddle.
    The longer she sits the shorter she grows.
    She wears a white gown & a red nose
    -Candle
    70. I have a wee mare with an iron throat.
    The faster she gallops she swallows the rope [sic]
    -sowing machine
    71. I have a wee mare she’s tied to the wall
    She’d eat all the fodder from here to Donegal
    -fire
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susan Mary Irwin
    Gender
    Female