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School: Rathdrum (B)

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Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
S. Ó Muirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 006

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    Riddles.
    I have a sow behind my house the more she gets the more she roars?
    A river.
    When do you carry water in a sieve?
    When it is in ice.
    What goes under the water and over the water and yet never touches the water ? A girl crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head.
    What is always behind time ?
    The back of a clock.
    Why does a horse look over the hedge?
    Becasue he can't look under it.
    What tree satisfies hunger ? The Bartry.
    When is a pint not a pint?
    When it is not condensed.
    There is a little house that a mouse couldnot live in it all the people in town could not count all
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Billy Field
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhad Lower, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Terence Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyhad Lower, Co. Wicklow