School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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   Heard but not heeded like a cuckoo in July.

   Riddles Ethel Moore from Mrs Keaney Church Lane near 40. What is it that rises + falls, travels about, wears shoes out, but never wears any shoes itself. A foot ball.

   When walking through a field of wheat, I picked up something good to eat, 'Twas neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor bone, but I kept it still till it ran alone. What was it? An egg.

   
   What has no legs and still can climb.
   Smoke.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   What is the smallest bridge in the world The bridge of your nose What can be put in a dish but can never be taken out. A crack. What stands on one leg and has its heart in its head A head of cabbage. What turns without moving. Milk. Which is the smallest Co. in Ireland Cork because it will go into a bottle. What has eyes but cannot see A potato. Who was the fastest runner in the world. Adam because he was first in the human race. On what toe does a corn never come The mistletoe. What was the 1st thing Adam planted in the garden of Eden. The sole of his foot. Which part of a herring weighs most The scales.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ethel Moore

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Keany

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 70

   Address

   Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim