School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)

Location:
Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mary A. Walsh
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    to you? Your mother.
    What it in the field and is not cut, in the shop and is not sold, in the river, and is not drowned?
    A sun-beam.
    What side of the cup is the handle.
    The outside.
    Which is a ton of coal or a ton of feathers the heavier? They are all the same.
    I sought for, I found it, it was easily met; yet God never got it, or never will get? A Master.
    When is the clock the hungriest?
    When it is going to eight.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Lucid
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Address
    Ballylongane, Co. Kerry