School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   (Because the blind man cannot see to go and the sailor cannot go to sea)

   It's in the water and it cannot be Drowned, it's in the meadow and cannot be cut, it's in the shop and cannot be sold?
   (The Sun)

   Midy moody round body three legs and a metal hat?
   (A pot.)

   It is as round as an apple as flat as a pan sometimes a woman and more times a man?
   (A penny)

   They walk on the roads with their heads down?
   (Nails in your shoes)

   What is the strongest thing in the world?
   (A snail because he can carry his home on his back)

   As I went up Corn hill. Corn hill was acking and all the birds in Cornhill were gathered in an acorn?
   (Funeral)

   Long legs crooked tighs small head and no eyes?
   (A toungs)

   A house full a room full you could not get a spoon full?
   (Smoke)

   It's black and it's white and it's read all over?
   (A Newspaper)

   Forty sheep went out a gap forty more followed that twice eleven six and seven three and two how much is that?
   (Five)

   Humpidy dumpidy on the wall, humpidy dumpidy got a fall

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   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ellen Doherty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Béal Leice, Co. Mhaigh Eo