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School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 385

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  1. Riddles and Guesses

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    Middy-noddy round body. Three feet and a wooden hat?
    A pot.
    A hard working father and a wee lazy mother and twelve of a family?
    A clock
    What has a cat that no other animal has?
    Kittens.
    I have a wee horse with an iron throat and the harder she gallops She swallows the rope.
    A sewing machine.
    A hard working father and a wee lazy mother and twelve of a family?
    A clock.
    A house full and a room full and you could not lift a spoon full?
    The smoke
    As I was going up the strand I met a Roaring bull I rickelder her and I tickelder her till I made her sing a song?
    A melodain
    King cole built a ship and in his ship his daughter sat and I am blamed
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dolly Steele
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal