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School: Glin (C.) (roll number 3232)

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Glin, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Cárthaigh
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    7. You could let it up the chimney down, but you couldn't let it down the chimney up.
    An umbrella.

    8. Which smells most in a chemist's shop.
    Your nose.

    9. It was neither fish, flesh, feather or bone. Four fingers and a thumb.
    A glove.

    10. 'Tis red and 'tis yellow. 'Tis ('sparible'?) green. The king cannot get it, or neither the queen.
    A rainbow.
    11. I went up on a house, and I could not get down. Where did I get down.
    On a goose.

    12. The man that made it never wore it, and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.

    Nora Ni Suilleabhain.
    Kilteery,
    Glin,
    Co. Limerick.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nóra Ní Suilleabháin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilteery, Co. Limerick