School: Áth na bhFearchan (roll number 5500)

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1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

   

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   around the wood and around the wood and never goes into the wood? The bark of a tree, What is full and can hold more? A pot of potatoes when it is full it can hold water? What goes from house to house and lies outside at night? A path. What goes up when the rain comes down? An umberella. A basket of crumbles a cake of bread riddle me that and I will give you a penny? The moon and the stars. Why does a cow look over the fence? Because she can not look under it. Round as an apple plump as a ball over the market house steeple and all? The moon. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a crown? A fiddle. As I went up Tara hill Tara hill was shaking four and twenty blackbirds tearing up the acre? A harrow. What goes round the house and round the house and a harrow after it? A hen and a flock of chickens.

   

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2. Weather-Lore

   

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   When the sky is cloudy and dark, that is the sign of rain. When there is a thick mist on the hill tops and the crows fly low and flock behind the fence, that is a sign of rain. When there is a cold north wind blowing and a ring of stars around the moon, and the robins come close to the door, and to the window sill, that is the sign of snow. When

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Caulfield

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumavaddy, Co. Monaghan