School: Crury (roll number 3134)

Location:
Creevy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Martin Keegan
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  1. What is it that when it is opened it is closed and when it is closed it is opened.
    The railways.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball, could climb over the Church steeple and all
    The sun.
    What is the nearest bird to the fire.
    The crane.
    Headed like a thimble and tailed like a rat, you may guess forever, and you will never guess that.
    A pipe.
    A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a wee brown cow with a pair of leather horns.
    A rabbit.
    What hangs, and bears, and never blossoms.
    The crane.
    Long legs cracked tighs (sic) wee head and no eyes.
    The tongs.
    The more you take from it the bigger it gets.
    A grave.
    What is it that lies beside the well, and could not get a drink without someone putting its head into it.
    A pen at an ink well.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    George Dorrian
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Donegal