School: Graigue, Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4124)

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   What goes from here to Dublin without moving? The road. What is it that a woman looks for and never wishes to find? A hole in a stocking As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, the half of a woman, the whole of a man? A penny. Ink, ank, under a bank, ten drawing four. - A woman milking a cow. Why is a proud lady like a drunkard? Because they are both fond of the glass A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you could not guess that? A pipe. Long legged father, big bellied mother three little children all the one colour. - A pot and hangers. What is it that God never sees, a king seldom sees and no matter where a man will go he will see it? His own equal. What goes round the world and you cannot see it? The wind.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Fitzgibbon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvisteen, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Michael Fitzgibbon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   43

   Address

   Ballyvisteen, Co. Cork