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School: Baile Uí Mheirigín, Merginstown

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    it up?
    A Draw well
    What go up the ladder with their heads down?
    The nails in your boots.
    What goes into the field and out of the field and stays in the field?
    A path.
    What is the shyest thing in a house?
    A clock, because it keeps its hands over its face all day
    When are sheep like ink?
    When they are in a pen
    What will make more noise than a pig going under a gate?
    Two pigs.
    Humpty-dumpdy sat on the wall
    Humpty-dumpdy got a great fall
    And all the kings' horses and all the king's men
    Could'nt put Humpty-dumpdy together again?
    An egg
    What word of five letters has only two left when you take one away?
    Stone
    Look at me and I'm everyone, scratch my back and I'm no one?
    A mirror
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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
    Joseph Perkins
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Merginstown, Co. Wicklow