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School: Mercy Convent

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Belturbet, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 075

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    Riddles
    25-3-1938
    1. What is it that you can see and God cannot? (Your own equal.)
    2. There were six people under an umbrella. How was it that none of them got wet? (It was not raining.)
    3. What lies in the water and never touches it? (Your shadow)
    4. Flies high, lies low, wears shoes and has none? (A Football)
    5 What is all holes and carries water? ( brook in a fireplace.)
    6. What goes with a motor-car and is no use to it? (Noise.)
    7. How many thorns in a whin-bush? (One and all the rest.)
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joan Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Belturbet, Co. Cavan