School: Clones (Clochar Lughaidh) (roll number 15041)

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   1. I washed my face in water that never was rained, nor run, and I dried my face in a towel that never was carved or spun.
   I washed my face in the due of the grass and dried it with the heat of the sun.

   2. What is full in the daytime and empty at night?
   A pair of boots.

   3. What is full and can hold more?
   A pot of potatoes.

   4. Why does a cow look over the hedge?
   Because she cant look under it.

   5. What walks with its head down?
   A nail in a mans boot.

   6. Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters.
   Fox

   7. What has two eyes and cannot see?
   A pair of scissors.

   8. Spell black water in three letters.
   Ink

   9. In yonder meadow there was a table

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Isabel Martin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ture, Co. Monaghan

   Collector

   Mollie Rooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Annaghkilly, Co. Monaghan

   Collector

   Vera Roy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Clones, Co. Monaghan