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School: Coill na Leac

Location:
Kilnaleck, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Mac Geibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0976, Page 012

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Answer - The letter E.
    Fourty sheep wen through a gap, fourty more went after that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that.
    Answer - 5.
    The beautifullest maiden that ever, she was made a wife the first day of her life and died before she was born.
    Answer - Eve.
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  2. Riddles

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    What grows in the wood, and sounds in the town, and earns his master many a pound.
    Answer - A fiddle.
    As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the men in Derry, could not lift it up.
    Answer - A well.
    Headed like a timble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you would not guess that.
    Answer - A pipe.
    What goes over the field and never comes back.
    Answer - A path.
    Why does a hen pick a pot.
    Answer - she can't lick it.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Philip Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male