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School: Cnoc Luinge (C.) (roll number 11665)

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Knocklong, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Siobhán Ní Néill
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  1. List of Riddles (continued)

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    A head of cabbage.
    As I was going to the fair of Ives I met a man with seven wives the seven wives had seven sacks and in the sacks wore seven cats the seven cats had seven kitten kits, cats, sacks and wives how many were going to the fair of Ives.
    One.
    The king of Manchester sent to his sister a bottomless vessel for holding raw meat?
    A ring.
    The queen of Spain she built a ship and in the ship her daughter lived and I'll be blamed for telling her name and that's three times I told her name.
    Ann.
    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
    Teresa Curtis
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knocklong, Co. Limerick