School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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   Heard but not heeded like a cuckoo in July. Riddles Ethel Moore from Mrs Keaney Church Lane near 40. What is it that rises + falls, travels about, wears shoes out, but never wears any shoes itself. A foot ball. When walking through a field of wheat, I picked up something good to eat, 'Twas neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor bone, but I kept it still till it ran alone. What was it? An egg. What has no legs and still can climb. Smoke.

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. seanfhocail (~4,377)

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   English

2. Riddles

   

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   What is the smallest bridge in the world The bridge of your nose
   What can be put in a dish but can never be taken out. A crack.
   What stands on one leg and has its heart in its head A head of cabbage.
   What turns without moving. Milk.
   Which is the smallest Co. in Ireland Cork because it will go into a bottle.
   What has eyes but cannot see
   A potato.
   Who was the fastest runner in the world. Adam because he was first in the human race.
   On what toe does a corn never come
   The mistletoe.
   What was the 1st thing Adam planted in the garden of Eden. The sole of his foot.
   Which part of a herring weighs most
   The scales.

   

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