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   and on that table there is a cup and in that cup there is a cup for all the world to taste it?
   "Death".
   "A head on it like a thimble a tail like a rat you will guess for ever but you wont guess that"? "A pipe."
   Black and white and read all over?" "The Celt."
   "What is the smallest room in the world? A mushroom.
   I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live.? Lighting a fire.
   What is the smallest bridge in the world? The bridge of your nose.
   An eater of grass and a cropper of thorns, a leathery skin and sometimes has horns? A goat.
   Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes? The tongs.
   One summers day in the middle of winter, a barefoot boy with shoes on him stood sitting on the grass.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Rathallaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Proinnsias Ó Rathallaigh

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Seán Ó Floinn

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Somhairle Ó Fiach

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan