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School: Crury (roll number 3134)

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Creevy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Martin Keegan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1029, Page 343

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What is it that has an eye and cannot see
    A needle
    What goes round the house round the house and lays an egg in every hole
    Hail stones
    What is wet with the drying
    A towel.
    Cut in the wood sounds in the town earns its master many a pound
    A fiddle.
    Little Jinny Huddle she sits in the puddle the longer she sits the shorter she gets
    A candle.
    Where was Moses when the light went out
    In the dark.
    Its black and its white and a gauslin green the king cant tutch (touch) it net neighter (nor neither) the queen the pope of roam can tutch it as soon come riddle me that from morning to noon.
    The rainbow.
    Why is Ireland like a bottle
    Because that's a cork in it
    I have a wee horse with his back
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    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
    George Dorrian
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creevy, Co. Donegal