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School: Sriantaigh (roll number 8015)

Location:
Sreenty, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac Aodha Bhuí
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0934, Page 119

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    Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I’ll buy you a pair of breaches? A head of cabbage.
    (Common with all)
    A house full, a room full and could not get a spoonful? A house full of smoke.
    (Common)
    What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound? A fiddle.
    (Common)
    What is it that stands at one end of the wood and eats at the other end? A pig eating at a trough.
    (B. McConnon)
    (continues on next page)
    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
    B. Mc Connon
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Ouvry, Co. Monaghan