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School: Eslin (roll number 10026)

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Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 368

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    Question: What is is that stands on one leg and has its heart in its head?
    Answer: A head of cabbage.
    Q: What is it grows with the roots up?
    A: Icicles.
    Q: Why is a dog compared with a tree?
    A: Because both have a bark.
    Q: Round the woods and round the woods and never touches the woods?
    A: A knife in a man's pocket.
    Q: It has a mouth and never eats and it has a bed and never sleeps?
    A: A river.
    Q: Why are disagreeable neighbours like loose leaves in a book?
    A: Because they are always falling out.
    Q: I have a little house that wouldn't hold a mouse and it has more windows than the Lord Mayor's house?
    A: A thimble.
    Q: As round as an apple, as deep as a pail and it never calls out till it's caught by the tail?
    A: A bell.
    Q: Round the house and round the house and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Faughnan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonfinnan, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Joseph Flynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonbo, Co. Leitrim