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School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)

Location:
Mullennakill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Chéadagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0850, Page 001

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    1. What goes around the house all day and stands on its head in the night?
    The nails in your boots.
    2. What goes around the wood and around the wood and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of a tree.
    3. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup; can climb the church over spires and all.
    The moon.
    4. Headed like a thimble,
    Tailed like a rat,
    You may guess for ever
    But you could not guess that.
    A pipe.
    5. Little thing, little thing, less that a mouse,
    It has more windows than all the king's house.
    A thimble.
    6. This is nearer to you than it is to me but you can't see it and I can.
    The back of your neck.
    7. As small as a wattle, as thin as a castle,
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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
    John Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Coolnahau, Co. Kilkenny