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School: Blacklion

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Blacklion, Co. Cavan
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    1. How would you divide four potatoes among three boys?
    Mash them.
    2. When is a cow not a cow?
    When it is turned into a field.
    3. No arms, no legs, a hundred eyes and cannot see?
    A thimble.
    4. Why do you go up bed?
    Because the bed does not come down to you.
    5. What has an eye and cannot see?
    A needle.
    6. What has a mouth but never speaks, a bed, but never lies in it?
    A river.
    7. What goes round the house and always lies in the corner?
    A brush.
    8. How many sides has a plum pudding?
    Two sides, Inside and outside.
    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
    Charles Lyness
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh
    Informant
    Sergt Lyness
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Belcoo, Co. Fermanagh