School: Baile Uí Argáin, Cill Moicheallóg (roll number 7237)

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   I am as quick as a bird, I cross the sea without a boat, I climb mountains without a ladder, I enter a house without knocking, I eat with a king? A fly It is not cat, but it wears hair, It is no mirror but it reflects. It rains at any moment, but it is not a cloud? An eye. Why does the cock close his eyes when he crows? He knows his song by heart. He hangs on my wall, but he is no saint. He has two horns, bu is not an ox. He paints with dye, but he is not a painter. He carries a house but he cannot build? A snail. What walks on their heads? The nails of your boots. London, Derry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K. That. When is a queen like a piece of wood? When she is a ruler. What is that grows the more you take from it? A grave.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs M. Treacy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   40

   Address

   Coolavehy, Co. Limerick