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School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)

Location:
Fahan Lower, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
R. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 513

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    What is it that the deaf man hears?
    What is it that the blind man sees?
    What is it that the poor man has?
    And the happy man wants?
    Answer Nothing
    What goes round the house, and round the house, and peeps in every hole?
    Answer The Sun
    A little white and brown house,
    And it is full of meat
    It has no doors or windows
    To let me in to eat?
    Answer An egg
    Two ducks before a duck, and two ducks behind a duck, and a duck in the middle. How many this that?
    Answer Three
    What turns without moving?
    Answer Milk
    (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
    Elizabeth Black
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Muineagh, Co. Donegal