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School: Ardaghy, Omeath

Location:
Ardaghy, Co. Louth
Teacher:
B. Mac Craith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0658, Page 089

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    Q. (1) What walks with it's head down?
    A A nail in a boot
    Q. (2) A house full, a room full, and cannot get a spoon full?
    A Smoke
    Q. (3) What goes round the floor and round the floor and sleeps in a corner at night?
    A A brush
    Q. (4) Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches?
    A A head of cabbage.
    Q. (5) What's full and holds more?
    A A pot full of potatoes.
    Q. (6) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you couldn't guess that.
    A A pipe
    Q. (7) Middy moddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat.
    A A pot
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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
    Collector
    Patrick O' Hare
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Bavan, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Owen O' Hare
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    51
    Address
    Bavan, Co. Louth