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School: Dromlohan, Kilcornan (roll number 15848)

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Dromlohan, Co. Limerick
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Rebecca Nic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 461

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    (1) Small head, crooked thighs, long legs and no eyes. : A Tongs.
    (2) Round and round and round the house and stands in a corner: A Brush.
    (3) What goes up when the rain comes down? : An Umbrella.
    (4) Ink ank under a bank, ten drawing four: A woman milking a cow.
    (5) Four feet in the morning, two feet in the middle of the day and three feet in the evening: A man.
    (6) I have a little house and a mouse wouldn't fit in it; and all the men in Ireland couldn't count all the windows in it? A Thimble.
    (7) It was born without a name and it died without a name and there was a name in it: Jonah's whale.
    (8)Green as grass and not grass; red as blood and not blood; and black as ink and not ink: Blackberries.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moig, Co. Limerick