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School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0914, Page 248

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    turning it out?
    The light
    What fish is the greatest traveller?
    The goldfish, because it's always swimming round the globe
    Why is a rich man like a blackbird?
    Because he is always changing his notes
    What goes up the hill and down the hill and never moves?
    A road
    What is it that you would not like to have and if you had it you would not like to lose it?
    A bald head
    Riddle-me-ri-me-randie-ro
    My father gave me seeds to sow
    The seeds were black and the ground was white
    Riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe?
    Ink and note paper
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
    A head of cabbage.
    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball.
    It climbs over the church over steeple
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Joseph Perkins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Merginstown, Co. Wicklow