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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 124

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    Riddles
    (1) A round house full of meat and has no door to let me in to eat?
    An egg.
    (2) What would you fill a barrel with to make it lighter?
    With holes
    (3) The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.?
    A hole in a wall
    (4) What pie can you not eat?
    A magpie!
    (5) How would you break a bottle in an empty sack.?
    You could not break a bottle in an empty sack, because the sack would not be empty if there was a bottle in it
    (6) What would make more noise under a gate than a pig.?
    Two pigs.?
    (7) What stick does not grow in a wood.
    A candle stick.?
    (8) How is it that a hen picks a pot.?
    Because she cannot lick it.?
    (9) What part of a cow goes out in a gap first.?
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs M. Devery
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    38
    Address
    Noggusduff, Co. Offaly