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School: Inch Island

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Carrickanee, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Mac Fhinn
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    What's in a window, that is not in glass, what is in a widow that is not in a lass?
    What is That? W
    What goes on one leg?
    What is that? A stocking.
    Two feet on the ground, three over head and a living head in the mouth of the dead.
    What is that?
    A man coming from the forge, after getting a foot on a pot.
    In Samon's park there walks a dear, with horn's both clink and clear. he is neither fish, flesh, skin or bone. In Samson's park he walks alone.
    What is that?
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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
    Maisie Whoriskey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlequarter, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mary Whoriskey
    Gender
    Female