School: Cluainín Mór (roll number 1682)

Location:
Cooga, Co. Sligo
Teachers:
Ss. Ó Murchú Seán Ó Murchú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 007

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 007

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  1. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.
    A riddle, a riddle a farmers fiddle, dead in the middle and alive in the two ends.
    A plough.
    I can see it and you cannot see it, and it is nearer to you than it is to me.
    The back of your head.
    Headed like a thimble, and tailed like a rat, you can guess forever but you cannot guess that.
    A pipe.
    As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man.
    A penny.
    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all.
    The sun.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English