School: Baile an Mhuilinn, An Droichead Nua (roll number 16654)

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   (17) What sleeps on its head all night? (A brush.)
   (18) What flies and has no wings to fly? (A leaf)
   (19) What wears boots and has no feet? (A football.)
   Why does a hen pick a pot? (Because she can't lick it.)

   I got list of riddles from my father;-
   Denis Curran,
   Age 60 years Punchers Grange,
   Droichead Nua,
   Co. Kildare.
   Signed:- Rose Curran.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   (1) If a peacock got up on a wall and laid an egg into another woman's garden, which would the woman that owned the garden or the woman that owned the peacock, own the egg? (Neither, for a peacock does not lay) (2) What did God give to man that he did not give himself? (A beginning and an end) (3) What is it we always see, a king seldom sees, and God never sees? (An Equal) (4) "Father" said the child "how does it come that you are my father but I am not your son? (It was his daughter) (5) Sisters and brothers I have none yet that

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nell Maguire

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare

   Informant

   Thomas Maguire

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   16

   Address

   Hawkfield, Co. Kildare