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School: Monaseed (roll number 15937)

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Monaseed, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Nioclás Ó Diomasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0889, Page 005

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  1. Riddles

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    Riddles
    Mrs Bigger, Mr Bigger and the baby, which of them all was the biggest?
    The baby, because he was a little bigger.
    Why is a drawn tooth like something you have forgotten?
    Because it is gone out of your head.
    What is taken from you before you get it?
    Your photograph.
    What head can't get a hat to fit it?
    Bray - Bray head
    Why is the centre of a tree like a dog's tail?
    Because it is farthest away from the bark
    What goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of a tree.
    Middy-noddy; round body,
    Two feet, and a wooden hat.
    A pot.
    Two very good servants, two very bad masters?
    Fire and water.
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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
    Peggy Mulligan
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Schoolchildren