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School: Ballysadare (C.) (roll number 9922)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0176, Page 141

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  1. Riddles

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    Agnes Mc Loughlin
    Ballysodare
    G.N.S
    Riddles
    1) What Shoemaker can make Shoes without Leather
    A Blacksmith
    2) What has an eye but cannot see
    A Needle
    3) it is neither inside the kitchen nor outside the kitchen but still ther is no kitchen without it.
    A window
    4) What is it that is full of holes but still can hold water
    A sponge
    50 Black and white went up a hill, black came back but white stayed still.
    A black hen laid a white egg
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Female