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School: Bullán (roll number 13432)

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Bullaun, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0101

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    Riddles
    Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes.
    A Tongs.
    Which grows longer a match or a candle
    Neither, they both burn shorter.
    It had four fingers and a thumb and it has neither flesh not bone.
    A Glove.
    Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
    A cake in an oven.
    What is always behind time.
    The back of a clock.
    When is an apple like a bell.
    When it is peeled.
    A pig before a pig a pig behind a pig a pig in the middle between two pigs. How many pigs is that?
    Three pigs.
    Got from: My Father Mick 55, Benmore, Bullaun.
    By: Maureen Healy, Same address, on the 12th July 1938.
    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
    Maureen Healy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Mick Healy
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Ben More, Co. Galway