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   5. Why does a cow look over a ditch.
   Ans. Because she can't look under it.

   6. Two Ns two Os an L and a D put them together and spell them for me.
   Ans. London.

   7. I have a little house and a mouse wouldn't fit in it, all the men in town couldn't count all the windows in it.
   Ans. A Thimble.

   8. Put out your hand and there you'll see, what isn't or what wasn't, or what never will be.
   Ans. That none of your fingers are the same size.

   9. A little Kerry cow she hangs in the wall she'll drink all around her but will eat nothing at all.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eibhlín Ní Dhuilleáin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killacrim, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mr Thomas Dillon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ennismore, Co. Kerry