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

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   make it lighter?
   A. Holes.
   Q. Fire under and fire over and still never touches it?
   A. A cake in an oven.
   Q. Twenty white horses standing in a stall up comes a red one and licked them all?
   A. Your teeth and tongue.
   Q. As round as an apple as flat as a pan half of a woman and the whole of a man?
   A. A penny.
   Q. Why does a hen pick the pot?
   A. Because she cannot lick it.
   Q. In a room where you would not get a spoonful?
   A. Smoke.
   Q. What is this that is all holes and can yet hold water?
   A. A sponge.
   Q. Two long legs and no tighe a big head and no eye? Answer A tonges.

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cissie Barnes

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corr an Chuaille, Co. na Gaillimhe

   Informant

   Mr Francis Barnes

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corr an Chuaille, Co. na Gaillimhe