School: Mullach na Cille (roll number 14649)

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   8. Under the water and over the water and never tips the water?
   A man coming over a bridge with a pail of water on his head.

   9. What turns without moving?
   Milk.

   10. A little red heifer sits by the wall,
   She eats all she gets but drinks none at all.
   The fire.

   11. What is it that enlightens the world though dark itself?
   Ink.

   12. What part of a cow goes out in a gate first?
   Her breath.

   13. Why does a cow look over a ditch?
   Because she could not look under it.

   14. What was three weeks old when Adam was a boy and was not three weeks old when Adam was a man?
   The moon.

   15. Twenty sick sheep went out in a gap
   Two died how many came back?
   Eighteen.

   16. What is the greatest wonder in the map of Europe?
   That Hungary does not eat Turkey.

   17. What's the shyest thing in the house?
   The clock, because it always has its hands before its face.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Alice Lawless

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Ballykenna, Co. Kilkenny