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Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 255

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    “He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day but he who fights and takes his chance will exist in the ambulance.”

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    Robertstown, Naas, Co. Kildare.
    Riddles
    Some riddles I heard are:
    As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man.
    Answer: A penny.
    What is it that has a head and cant get a hat to fit it.
    Answer: Bray-head.
    Long and narrow, thin and tall cause many a man to fall.
    Answer: A gun
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you wont guess that.
    Answer: A pipe
    It is in the marrow and its not in the bone, its in the rock and its not in the stone. It is in the river and it is not in the
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    Some riddles I heard are:
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man. Answer: A penny.
    What is it that has a head and cant get a hat to fit it. Answer: Bray-head. Long and narrow, thin and tall cause many a man to fall. Answer: A gun
    Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you wont guess that. Answer: A pipe. It is in the marrow and its not in the bone its in the rock and its not in the stone. It is in the river and it is not in the
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maggie Ward
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Allenwood North, Co. Kildare