School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   What is half the shyest thing in the house.
   The clock because it always has its hands to its face.
   What is always full of pains. A window.
   What side of a jug is the handle at.
   The outside.
   As I went into a field of wheat I picked up something good to eat. It was neither flesh, fish, feather nor bone and in three weeks time it would walk alone. A hen egg.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   What part of the cow reaches the ditch the first. Her breath. As round as a marble as flat as a pan, half of a woman and the whole of a man. A penny.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   William Beston

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Baile Thomáis, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Mrs Beston

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   56

   Address

   Baile Thomáis, Co. Thiobraid Árann

3. Riddles

   

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   Betty inside the ditch and if you go near Betty she will bite you.
   A nettle.
   Black and white and red all over. A newspaper.
   Use me well and I am everybody. Scratch my back and I am nobody. A mirror.

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