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   of cabbage.
   Two deet on the ground three over head the head of the living in the mouth of the dead? Answer = A pot on a man's head.
   What can go into the water and cannot get wet?
   Answer - Your shadow.
   As round as an apple as plump as a ball it can climb the church over steeple and all? Answer - The sun.
   The people searched and they got it, and it was easy for them to get it but God ciuld never get it? Answer = His master.
   How many nibs do the hen strike on the ground before she has ten gains of oats eaten? Answer = One nib.
   Why is a dog with a broken lef like a boy doing sums? Answer = Because he puts down three, and carries one.
   It is not outside or it is not inside on you, and it is not heavy? Answer = Your name.
   The man that made it never wore it the man that wore it never saw it? Answer = A coffin.
   As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side a woman, and the other side a man? Answer = A penny.
   What do you do before you come down the stairs? Answer = You have to go up.
   It comes in on the peopl's backs, and it goes out as fine as silk? Answer = Turf.
   What is the smallest thing that has an eye, and cannot

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Agnes Loftus

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo