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School: Carra

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Carha, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 388

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Answer = Oxo (0x0)
    18. A duck before two ducks, a duck behind two ducks and a duck in the middle between two ducks? Answer = Three fingers.
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    It grows in the wood, it plays in the town, it earns a shilling and many a crown?
    A fiddle.
    When has a cow eight feet?
    When you see her shadow
    What goes up white and comes down yellow?
    An egg.
    Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that?
    A pipe.
    One half dead and the other half living and a tail wagging.
    A dog.
    A dog with his head in a pot of water.
    Middy, Noddy, round body three feet and a wooden hat?
    A pot
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb over churches over steeple and all?
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bea Conrecode
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathreedaun, Co. Mayo