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School: Baile Mac Rabhartaigh (roll number 3978)

Location:
Ballymagrorty, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Fiannaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 169

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Muddy – Roddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat.
    Answer, A Pot.
    One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging.
    Answer, A Dog with his head in a pot.
    What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood.
    Answer, The bark of a tree
    I put my foot upon her foot and on her I did jig,
    And with my furly long thing, I filled her furly gig.
    Answer, A woman spinning wool.
    Ink, Ank, under the Bank
    Ten drawing four.
    Answer, A woman milking a cow.
    As I was going to London I saw a great wonder. Four and twenty wild
    geese, tearing the world asunder.
    Answer, A man harrowing.
    What did the girl buy the box of Vaseline for?
    Answer, For twopence
    When does a cat become larger and smaller.
    Answer, When she is let out in the morning and taken in at night.
    What hangs and bears and never blossoms.
    Answer, a Crook.
    A house full, a room full, you couldn’t catch a spoonfull.
    Answer, The Smoke.
    A little round house and its full of meat. It has no doors or windows to let you in to eat.
    Answer, An Egg.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
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    Children in fifth and sixth classes