School: Dalystown (roll number 15307)

Location:
Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Kathleen Grehan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0731, Page 013

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  1. As round as an apple as plumb as a ball can climb the church steeple and all.
    The sun.
    Hairy all over, rough in the two things wagging and one going in.
    A pig eating food.
    How can you get down off an ass.
    There is no down on an ass.
    What has a hundred teeth and no eyes.
    A saw.
    What has a head and a foot.
    A bed.
    What is the nearest bird to the fire.
    The crane.
    Long legs short thighs small head and no eyes.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rita Carey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Stoneford Bridge, Co. Westmeath