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School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)

Location:
Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Michael Quinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 029

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    1. What is it the more you take the more you leave behind. Answer - Your footsteps
    2. As black as ink and ink it is not. As white as milk and milk it is not. It hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble stone it is not?
    Answer - A magpie
    3. Under the water and over the water and never touches the water?
    Answer - An egg in a duck
    4. The man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it?
    Answer - a coffin
    5. Inside to your house I come many a time. And high on the shoulders of a man I climb and when I go out just over your head. I am as thin as a line of silken thread?
    Answer - Smoke
    6. Why should Ireland soon be rich?
    Answer - Because its capital in Dublin
    7. Three pots boiling and no fire under
    Answer - A spring well
    8. What is it that we see every day and god never sees?
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonruff, Co. Galway