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School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 420

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Why does a cow go over the hill
    Because she can't go under it.
    What goes around the house, and round the house, and peeps in every window.
    The sun.
    A leaper of ditches, a cropper of corn, a tight little fellow with two leather thorns.
    A rabbit
    What goes through the country, round the town, and up the chimneys with its head down.
    A nail in a Sweeper's foot.
    What county in Ireland can your put into a bottle.
    Cork
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  2. Riddles

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    Think hank under bank, few drowning pour.
    Milking a cow.
    One windy night I saw a sight, The dead burying the living.
    Caking a fire with dead ashes over live coals.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches, Riddle me that and I'll give you my breeches.
    A cabbage head.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Louis Irwin
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Elliott
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    90
    Address
    Moneenlom, Co. Leitrim