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School: Aghakee

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Aghakee, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0994, Page 004

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    Because there is a man in it.
    6. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.
    The bark of the tree.
    7.What is it that the more you take out of it the larger it gets.
    A hole in the earth.
    8. There was a man of Adam's race
    He had a certain dwelling place.
    'Twas not in heaven on earth or in hell where was the place that man did dwell.
    Inside the whale.
    9. Patch upon patch without any stitches
    Riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches.
    A cabbag head.
    10. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window.
    The snow.
    11. I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and I saw
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Shaun Briody
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rockfield, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr John Mc Cabe
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    86
    Address
    Latnadronagh, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Philip Lynch
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Rockfield, Co. Cavan