School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

   

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   middle of a field, if you lift up his hand his nose will bleed? A pump.
   3. What river spelled backwards is the name of a fish? River Lee.
   4. Black and white and red all over.
   newspaper.
   5. As black as ink, as white as snow, and hops on the road like hailstones. A magpie.

   6. Mossy and damp and green on the bank and fit for any lord to go into. A grave.
   7. Under the fire and over the fire and still never touches the fire. A cake in a baker.
   8. I have a little cow and she is tied to the wall, she drinks all she gets and she eats none at all. A lamp.

   9.What bird comes nearest to the fire?
   A crane.
   10. Once in a minute, twice in a moment, but, never in a thousand years. The letter "m."

   11. Who was the first whistler? The wind.
   12. If a tongs and a fender, cost 10[?] what would a hundred of coal come to? It would come to ashes.

   13. What part of a car goes into the town the first? The noise.

   14. If you fell down a hundred feet what would you fall against? Your will.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Rita Cahill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   James Cahill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drom, Co. Tipperary