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School: Cooley

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Cooly, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eoghan Ó Beoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 359

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    The bark of a tree.
    When is a clock the hungriest?
    23. When it is going to eight
    24. One half living and the other half dead?
    A dog with his head in a pot
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    1. They parted my head and they shaved my face and they brought my body to disgrace with wearied horses and tired men, they brought me to their own town end.
    Turf
    2. I have a web of check it was never wrought or spun it covers all the world but the water and the sun.
    The Dew
    3. What is always behind time?
    The back of a watch
    4. Its doubled latched and it's double locked and you could not open it unto you'd break it
    An egg
    5. I have it and you haven't it and you use it
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John G. Barr
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glencrow, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs William Barr
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Glencrow, Co. Donegal