School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)

Location:
Currans, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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  1. Four legs up, four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round. A bed.
    Tis here, tis there, tis everywhere, tis in the farmer's haggard, it takes a bite as big as a horse and never eats any hay. A cabbage cutter.
    What is it that gets bigger, no doubt of it, the more you take out of it? A hole.
    As red as rose, as white as milk and as sweet as honey? An apple.
    Why does a cow look over the ditch? Because she can't look under the ditch.
    What can be found where it is not? A fault.
    Why does a chicken cross the road? To get to the other side.
    What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?
    It is time to fix it.
    As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy; he had timber toes, iron nose and upon my word he'd frighten the crows? A gun.
    Forty sheep went out a gap, twenty white and twenty black, a farmer ad his dog; how many feet were in the lot? Two feet.
    Long legs, crooked thighs, a small head and no eyes? A tongs.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fahaduff, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mr Ned Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Fahaduff, Co. Kerry