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   Answer - The moon.
   10. A bit of iron and a lump of wool ?
   Answer.= A needle and thread.
   11. What's the smallest thing that has an eye and cannot see ?
   Answer.= A potato.
   12. I went up the road and took with a thing I wasn't asking ?
   Answer.= A thorn.

   

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   Collect by = Michael J Sarsfield Carranaglough. 1. Iron nose steel toes upon my word it would frighten the crows? Answer.= A gun. 2. As white as snow and snow its not, as green as grass and grass its not as red as blood and blood its not, as black as ink and ink its not ? Answer.= A black berry. 3. What's full and can hold more ? Answer.= A pot full of potatoes and it can hold more water. 4. Round the wood and round the wood and cannot get into the wood. Answer.= The bark of a tree. 5. How many days belong to a year. Answer.=325 all the

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael J. Sarsfield

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo