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School: Lisselton (C.) (roll number 10536)

Location:
Lisselton, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bheoláin
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    Riddles
    As round as an apple, as plump as ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
    The sun.
    What is it that always walks with it's head down?
    A nail in your boot.
    What's full and holds more?
    A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
    One half dead, the other half living, and a tail wagging?
    A dog with it's head in the pot.
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever, but you'll never guess that?
    A pipe.
    Patch upon patch, without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy a pair of breeches?
    A cabbage.
    What goes round the wood, and round the wood, but never gets into the wood?
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Collins
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lisselton, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Ned Collins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lisselton, Co. Kerry