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School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)

Location:
Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Éamonn Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0556, Page 080

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    Riddles
    I have a little house and it is full there is no door or window to let me in to? An egg.
    Under the water and over the water and never touches the water? An egg before a duck lays it.
    It is black and white and red all over? A news paper burning.
    What goes into a house white and comes out read? A news paper.
    A leaper of ditches a hopper of thorns a little brown cow with leathern horns? A hare.
    I went out a slippery slobbery gap
    I met my uncle Davey, I cut off his head and left his body easy? A head of cabbage
    Ink ank under a bank ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow.
    What part of a cow goes out a gap first? Her breath.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Boland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullowcossaun, Co. Tipperary