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School: Ferbane (Convent)

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Ferbane, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Sr Patrick
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  1. A Collection of Riddles

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    As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the king's horses wouldn't pull it up? A spring well.
    As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the Church, over steeple and all? The Sun.
    As black as ink and ink it isn't, as white as snow and snow it isn't, can hop on the road like a marble stone, and a marble stone it isn't? A magpie.
    I went up the road, and I went down the road, and I carried the road on my back?
    A ladder.
    What is it that has as many windows as any king's
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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
    Katie Dunican
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Endrim, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mr Pat Dunican
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Endrim, Co. Offaly