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School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)

Location:
Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 134

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    Two Crookers,
    And a wheel about.
    A Cow.

    As I was going to London
    I saw a great wonder,
    Two pots boiling,
    And no fire under.
    A spring well.
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  2. A Spring Well

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    A man was going to be hanged one day. The people said that they would leave him off if he would bring in a riddle that they could not answer. he went out into a graveyard and he came back with the following riddle.
    "As I walked out, as I walked in. I saw death abroad and life within. Six stood and the seventh went free. Riddle me that and hung I will be?" He saw a dead mans skull in the graveyard
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English