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   Riddles. 1. Which side of the cup has the handle. The outside. 2. How many cows tails would reach the moon? One if it were long enough. 3. Why is a guard like an aeroplane. Because they both take people up. 4. Riddle me, riddle me, rye, my father gave me seeds to sow. The seeds were black and the ground was white. Riddle me that and you'll get a half pint. Ink and paper. 5. Which is the white hen or black hen the best. The black hen can lay a white egg, but the white hen cannot lay a black one. 6. Tank, Tank under the bank, ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow. 7. Which is the grey goose or the white goose the gander? None of them. 8. What goes round the house but not out of it? A brush. 9. Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more went after that

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mairín Ní Conraoi

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Glin Demesne, Co. Limerick