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   call you a clever man?
   (There is no “r” in “that”

   

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2. Tomhaiseanna

   

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   What key is the hardest to turn? (A donkey) If a man fell accidentally what would he fall against? (His will.) What three things cannot be found? (A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.) Headed like thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you couldnot guess that? (A pipe)

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Áine Ní Chuinn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coad, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Micheal Quinn

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Coad, Co. Clare

3. Tomhaiseanna

   

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   What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
   (A hole)

   
   Collected by: - Pádraig Ó Faoileáin, Lemeneigh
   Told by: - (Mrs) Ellen Whelan, Lemeneigh, (his grandmother)
   (80 years)

   

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