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School: Cloncarneel

Location:
Cloncarneel, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Bhreacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0695, Page 194

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    Up the road and down the road and I carried the road on my back?
    A ladder.
    Neither within or without and still it's useful to the house.?
    A window.
    It's not long enough and cut a piece of it and it's long enough.?
    A grave.
    Neither flesh or blood and has four fingers and a thumb?
    A glove
    Three legs cannot walk, two ears cannot hear, a mouth and cannot eat?
    A pot.
    What is it that is no use to a dray and still it cannot do without it?
    The crack of the axle.
    What turns without moving?
    Milk
    Says the child to it's father how does it come you are my father and I'm not your son?
    A Daughter.
    What's always behind time?
    The back of a watch or clock.
    The longer it lives the shorter it gets?
    A candle.
    I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and it has as many windows as
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Harmon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Woodtown, Co. Meath