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School: Killenaule, Dúrlas Éile (B.)

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Killenaule, Co. Tipperary
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Seán Ó Muireadhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 164

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    Riddles 18-11-1937 What goes in dry and comes out wet and the longer you leave it in the stronger it gets.
    Tea.
    There is a little man up in the field and if you pull his hand his nose will bleed.
    A Pump.
    The more you put into it the small it will get and the more you take out of it the bigger it will get.
    A hole.
    What turns without ever moving
    Milk.
    Tall thin father short thin mother twelve little children all the one colour
    The clock
    Four ballylanders, four stick standards two lookers two cruckers and a fly beater.
    A cow.
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    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
    Patrick Geoghegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killenaule, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Michael Geoghegan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Occupation
    Shopkeeper
    Address
    Killenaule, Co. Tipperary