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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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    Riddles.
    1. As I went into a garden of wheat I got a thing that any man could eat and in three weeks time it walked alone?
    An egg in which a chicken appeared
    2. Black and white and read all over?
    A Paper.
    What runs and has no legs?
    3. The Tap.
    All patches and no stitches?
    4. A head of cabbage.
    Up the road and down the road and carried the road on his back?
    5 A ladder.
    What carried his house on his back.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Kennedy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Torpan More, Co. Roscommon