School: Ráth Mhaoláin (Robertson) (roll number 10374)

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1. Local Riddles (continued)

   

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   One is shaken up and taken and the other is taken up and shaken.
   7) What has two wings but cannot fly?
   A cart
   8) Everything has it and so has a needle?
   A name
   9) What is the most useless thing you could have in your pocket?
   A hole.
   10)How many sticks go to make a crow's nest?
   None, they are all carried.
   11) What goes up the chimney down, and won't come down the chimney up?
   An Umbrella.
   12) What has a head and a heart and can stand?
   A cabbage.
   13) As round as the moon, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man?
   A penny.
   14) Whit is a roomful of married ladies empty?
   Because there's not a single one in it.
   15) Why is a lame dog like a boy doing arithmetic?
   Because he puts down three and carries one.
   16) Why is a dog's tail like the centre of a tree?
   Because it is the furthest away from the bark
   17) What turns without moving?
   Milk.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bessie Mac Naught

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Daniel Mac Greory

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Address

   Killygarvan Lower, Co. Donegal