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School: Uragh (B.)

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Uragh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
S. Ó Connachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 235

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    1 Full of flesh and blood all day and lies in the corner at night
    Ans. A shoe
    2 What goes round the house and round the house and drags its puddings after it:
    Ans. A hen and its fleck of chickens.
    3. What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
    Ans. A hole.
    4. What bears water with its head down?
    Ans. The crook.
    5 Blackie and White went over the hill. Blackie came back but white stood still.
    Ans. A black hen laying an egg.
    6. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that me and I'll buy you a pair of breeches
    Ans. A cabbage.
    7 What is the best thing to put in an apple-pie?
    Ans. Your teeth.
    8 What is black and white and read all over?
    Ans. The newspaper.
    9 As I went up to Dublin I saw the world's wonder four and twenty blackbirds tearing the world asunder.
    Ans. A Harrow.
    10 Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes.
    Ans. The tongs.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    James Mc Govern
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Cornalon, Co. Cavan