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    Riddles No.5
    1 What full and will hold more?
    A pot of potatoes when you pour water on.
    2 How many hairs in a dogs tail?
    None.
    3 As round as an apple as plump as a ball?
    A bubble.
    4 Patch upon patch without any stitches?
    A head of cabbage.
    5 What walks with its head down?
    A nail in a man's boot.
    6 What goes round the wood and never enters it?
    The bark of a tree.
    7 Why is a horse wiser than a rat?
    Because he can run in a trap.
    8 Headed like a timble tailed like a rat?
    A pipe.
    9 Sometimes in water, sometimes out, Sometimes with a head on, and sometimes without?
    A pillow case.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Alex Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Legalough, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr A. Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    69
    Address
    Legalough, Co. Cavan