School: Baile Theas (C.), Malla (roll number 4954)

Location:
Ballyhass, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Bríd Bean Uí Dhála
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  1. What tune makes every body glad
    Fortune
    What turns without moving
    Milk
    What is always behind time
    The back of a clock or watch
    What is black and white and red all over
    The news paper
    A row of white cows and a red one in the middle
    Your teeth and tongue
    Which can a man with one eye or with two eyes see the most
    A man with one eye because a man with one eye can see the other man's two eyes and the man with two eyes can only see the other man's one eye
    What is half the moon like
    The other half
    What have a tongue but cannot speak
    A boot
    I set cabbage and what came up
    A donkey and ate it all
    What is as green as grass but is not grass, as red as blood but is not blood, as black as ink but is not ink
    A blackberry
    What is the hardest key to turn
    A Donkey
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Chrissie Sullivan
    Gender
    Female