School: Doire an Céise (C )

Location:
Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Uaid
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    What is it that is full in the day and empty at night?
    Your shoe.
    What is it that has four eyes and cannot see?
    A button.
    What is it that is neither within nor without?
    The window.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 50 Hairy all over, and rough in the skin, Two things wagging, and one going in?
    A pig eating meat.
    51. Head without hair,
    Teeth without lips,
    A long leg and no hips?
    A rake.
    52. Ten mens length, ten mens strength,
    ten men couldnt tear it, and a little boy walks off with it?
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Tackney
    Gender
    Female