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   1) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess forever but you could not guess that?
   Answer=a pipe

   2) As black as ink, as white as milk and she hops on the ground like a hailstone.
   Answer= a magpie

   3) Why does a hen peck a pot?
   Answer = because she cannot lick it

   4) As I went out to the garden I met my uncle David. I cut off his head and I left his body standing?
   Answer = a head of cabbage.

   5) How many feet have forty sheep a shepherd and his dog?
   Answer =2 feet

   6) Troop, troop around the house and all their heads turned down?
   Answer = nails in your shoes

   7) Little red Betty the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
   Answer = a candle

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Sealy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Rathfran, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   John Farrell

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Rathfran, Co. Mayo