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School: Lios an Uisce (roll number 15647)

Location:
Lissinisk, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Máighréad Ní Chárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1102, Page 11

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    1. A hard working father a wee lazy mother and twelve black wains
    Answer: a clock
    2. What eye never sheds a tear
    Answer: the eye of a needle
    3. What is full of eyes and cannot see, a tongue and cannot speak and you could not save its soul
    Answer: a shoe
    4. Its black and white and red all over
    Answer: a newspaper
    5. Little Nancy etty coat in a white petticoat the longer she lives the shorter she gets
    Answer: a candle
    6. The man that made it never wore it the man that wore it never saw it.
    Answer: a coffin
    7. As round as a ball as plump as a apple, and its high over steeple and high over all.
    Answer; the sun
    8.As round as a cup a tail like a rat if you guess all
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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
    Mary Sweeney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stralongford, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Joe Mc Kelvey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Stralongford, Co. Donegal