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School: Aughrim (B.)

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Aughrim, Co. Wicklow
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0921, Page 115

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    (1) What goes away over the ground and returns under it?
    A man with a sod on his head.
    (2) What always walks with its head down?
    A nail in your foot.
    (3) What stands with a head on one leg?
    A head of cabbage.
    (4) As sound as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?
    The sun.
    (5) Middy, Moddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat?
    A pot
    (6) What is full and holds more?
    (continues on next page)
    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
    William Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aughrim, Co. Wicklow