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School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)

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Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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    18-1-38 Riddles
    What is full & holds more.
    A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
    If a man got sixpence for walking thirty miles what would be get for walking a hundred miles.
    Sore feet.
    What is the half of the moon (life) like.
    The other half.
    What part of a cow goes in to the gap first.
    The breath.
    What is black & white and red all over.
    A book.
    Why do a cow look over a ditch.
    Because he could not look under it.
    Headed like thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you will not guess that.
    A pipe.
    Theres a thing not a big as a mouse but it has more windows than a kings house.
    A thimble.
    What goes round the wood & round
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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
    Brigid Breen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Charles Lunn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    42
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny