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School: Lahinch (roll number 11591)

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Lehinch, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Dónall Ó Ríordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0621, Page 365

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    People find great amusement in riddles. These are some I have heard in the locality.
    (1) A house full, a room full, and you could not take a spoon full?
    Smoke
    (2) How used Adam sleep?
    With his eyes closed.
    (3) Two legs on the ground three on the head; the head of the living in the mouth of the dead?
    A person carrying a pot on his head.
    (4) Where was Moses when the light went out?
    In the dark.
    (5) What is full and yet holds more?
    A pot of potatoes.
    (6) What is no use until it is broken?
    An egg.
    (7) How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and a dog?
    Two feet
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    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
    Informant
    Dan Garrihy
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lehinch, Co. Clare