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   Q:- What is it that has two ears and cannot hear?
   A:- A pot.
   Q:- As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry could not pull it up?
   A:- A well.
   Q:- I have a wee house and a mouse would not sit in it, and all the men in Ireland could not count the windows on it?
   A:- A thimble.
   Q:- When was "B" the first letter in the alphabet?
   A:- In the days of Noah (no"A").
   Q:- What is it that rises and falls, travels about, wears shoes out but never has any to wear itself?
   A:- A football.
   Q:- If a man built a wall from Cavan to Kells what height would it be?
   A:- The height of nonsense.

   

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2. A Collection of Riddles

   

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   Q:- The man that made it made it to sell it, the man that bought it did not want it and the man that wanted it never saw it, what is it? A:- A coffin. Q:- Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more after that, six, seven, ten, eleven. Two, three, how many

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen O Connell

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lislea, Co. Cavan