School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)

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1. Riddles

   

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   1
   Patches upon patches without any stitches.
   A head of cabbage

   2
   Twenty sick sheep went out in gap one died how many came back
   Ninteen came back

   3
   As I went up a hill I met my uncle Bill. I drank his blood and left his body easy
   A bottle of Whiskey

   4
   A thing too short cut a bit off it and will make long enough
   A grave

   5
   What carries its house on its back
   A Snail

   6
   A leaper of ditches a skipper of thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns
   A hare

   7
   What part of a cow goes over a ditch first
   Her breath

   8
   Why does a cow look over a ditch
   Because she cant look under it

   9
   Why does a hen pick a pot
   Because she cant lick it

   10
   Black and white and red all over
   A newspaper

   11
   If a tree fell into the river got out of the river and stood over the river.
   A moon

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick L. Moore

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Towlerton, Co. Laois

   Informant

   Anthy Dunne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Towlerton, Co. Laois