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School: Ballycorus (roll number 8294)

Location:
Ballycorus, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
E. Nic Shionóid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0798, Page 226

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    1/ Patch upon patch without any stiches riddle me that and I will buy you a new breeches
    Head of cabbage
    2/ What has a red head and a wooden leg
    a match
    3/ What has only one head one eye and one leg
    a needle
    4/ A little white and round house and it is full of meat it has no doors nor windows to let me in to eat
    an egg
    5/ As round as an apple as plump as a pear a split in the middle all covered with hair.
    an eye
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Ní Máinseal
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballycorus, Co. Dublin