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School: Cooley

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Cooly, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 356

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    30. What has a bed but does not sleep?
    A river.
    31. Down in my father's garden there is a pretty plot four and twenty little ones all at a trot the hindmost was foremost and the foremost was hindmost?
    The flax.
    32. A wee white bunny long and thin and a floating tail on him?
    A needle and thread.
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    1. What is this, out between two woods and in between two waters?
    A man with a "go" of water.
    2. What makes a hen dab a dish?
    Because she cannot lick it.
    3. What goes up the stairs in white and black and comes down read all over?
    A newspaper.
    (4) What walks on its head all day and sleeps in its own dirt at night?
    Nails in your shoe, or brush.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    William Mc Gonigle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cooly, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Gonigle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cooly, Co. Donegal