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School: Robertson (roll number 13372)

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Ballintra, Co. Donegal
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Somhairle Mac Ádhaimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1033, Page 156

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    down. Hairy around the neck and baldy round the grown.
    Hazel Nuts.
    As round so an apple, as flat as a pan. The half of a woman, the whole of a man?
    A Victorian penny.
    What goes out between two woods, and comes home between two waters?
    A man carrying two wooden pails of water.
    What can go up a chimney down, but cannot go down a chimney up.
    An Umbrella
    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
    Bob Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Murvagh Upper Glebe, Co. Donegal