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School: Baile Máirtín, Muine Beag

Location:
Ballymartin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Bean an Bhreathnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 552

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    1. What is this? It is in the marrow it is not in the bone, it is in the rock but it is not in the stone, it is in the church, but it is not in the steeple, it's in the graveyard among all the people.
    The letter R
    2. What is it that walks with its head down during the day and stands on its head during the night.
    A sweeping brush.
    3. Why does a cow look over the ditch.
    Because she cannot look under it.
    4. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you will never guess that?
    A pipe
    5. As round as an apple as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
    The sun
    6. Patch over patch, without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you
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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
    Teresa Dillon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballymartin, Co. Carlow