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School: Naomh Muire, Droichead Átha (roll number 8052)

Location:
Drogheda, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Sr. M. Bernard Mc Cabe
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    Headed like a thimble Tailed like a cat
    You may guess forever But you'll never guess that
    Ans = A pipe.
    What is it flies high, flies low, wears boot's and has none?
    Ans. A football
    If a shovel, poker and tongs came to 7/6, what should a ton of coal come to?
    Ans. = Ashes.
    When is a piece of wood like a king?
    Ans = When the wood is turned into a ruler.
    What is it a poor man has and a rich man wants?
    Ans. = Nothing.
    A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose, a hundred of eyes and never a nose?
    Ans. = A strainer
    What is it that stands on one leg and a heart in the middle?
    Ans. = A head of cabbage.
    Why should you never tell secrets in a cornfield?
    Ans. = Because there are too many ears.
    The more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
    Ans. = A hole.
    As round as an apple as a flat as a pancake with a man on one side and a woman on the other?
    Ans. = A penny.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridgie Moore
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballymakenny, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Mrs Matthews
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Millmount Square, Co. Louth