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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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    22-1-38 Riddles
    If a boy got sixpence for walking thirty miles what would he get for walking one hundred miles.
    Sore feet.
    What goes up and down & never tips the sky or ground.
    The handle of a pump.
    As round as a cup as flat as a pan
    the head of a woman & the whole of a man.
    A penny.
    How far can you go into a wood.
    You can only only go to the middle because if you go any farther you would be going out of it.
    Middy-noddy round body three feet & a wooden hat.
    A pot.
    What goes around the wood & around the wood & never gets into the wood.
    The bark of a tree.
    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
    Mary Walton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Pat Mc Grath
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Watree, Co. Kilkenny