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School: Ballinamona

Location:
Ballynamona, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Michael Mc Keon
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    What goes round the wood and round the wood and sleeps on the wood at night?
    Answer A Dishcloth.
    What is all pieces all patches big head and no stitches?
    Answer: A Head of Cabbage.
    Nine mens length nine mens strength and one man can carry it?
    Answer A Rope.

    I set on my hunkers and looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live?
    Answer Raking the Fire.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Reilly
    Gender
    Female