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School: Iorball Sionnaigh (roll number 16923)

Location:
Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 018

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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    Four sticks standing, four down hangers, two lookers, two crookers and a scutcher? ( a cow)
    Forty two sheep went through a gap, forty more followed that, six seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that? ( five)
    What stands at the end of the wood and licks it all over? ( a pig at a pig-trough)
    What has ears and cannot hear?
    ( corn)
    What turns without moving? ( milk)
    The man that made it did not want it, the man that wanted it did not see it, the man that saw it did not wear it.?( a coffin)
    It grows in the wood, it sounds in the town, it earns its master many a pound.?( a ??
    As I went through yon guttery gap I met
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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
    Eddie Deery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumloo, Co. Monaghan