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School: Nuadhan (Noan), Dúrlas Éile

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Noan, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 339

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    Useless, useless instrument.
    when it's bought it's never lent.
    The man that buys it tisn't his own,
    and the man that owns it little he knows.
    Answer: A coffin
    I went between two woods, and I came between two waters.
    Answer: I went for the well with two timber buckets and I brought them home full of water.
    I washed my face in water that never rained or run, and I dried it in a towel that was never worn or spun.
    Answer: I washed it in the dew, and I dried it in the sun.
    What is it the more you take off it the larger it gets?
    Answer: A grave.
    Tis red and tis blue and tis every colour and they king cannot touch it no more than the queen.
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    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
    Nellie Hayde
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynagleragh, Co. Tipperary