School: Dungimmon

Location:
Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Mrs Flynn
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  1. What has teeth and does not use them for eating purposes?
    {A comb}
    I have a little red man above in the field and every time I pull his leg his nose will bleed.
    {A pump}
    If a pig's head is bacon whats his tail?

    Head like a thimble tail like a rat and all the men in Derry wouldn't guess that
    {A pipe}
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Coyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan