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School: Finner

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Finner, Co. Donegal
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Eilís Máire Ní Nasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1026, Page 060

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  1. Local Riddles (continued)

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    Q. The leaper of ditches, the clipper of thorns.
    A wee brown cow, with leather horns.
    A. A hare.
    Q. Forty sheep went through a gap,
    forty more followed that,
    ten, eleven, eight, nine, three and two, how manys that.
    A. Five (three and two are five.)
    Q. I'm round, and I'm flat, I'm this and I'm that,
    and I'm the picture of my eldest brother.
    A. A halfpenny.
    Q. I'm up and down, I'm in and out,
    and if you come out I'll put you about.
    A. The wind.
    Q. Two ducks in front of a duck,
    two ducks behind a duck,
    and a duck in the middle, how many is that?
    A. Three ducks.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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        1. riddles (~7,209)
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