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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte

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Lismore, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
Sr M. Gráinne
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    A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in
    9. What walks with its head down?
    A nail in your boot.
    10. What goes round the wood and round the woods and never gets into the wood?
    The bark of the tree.
    11. Middy Noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat?
    A pot
    12. What birds name can you spell in one letter?
    The "J" Jay
    13. What part of a horse goes over a fence first when he is jumping?
    His breath.
    14. What is killed and cured again?
    A pig
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lismore, Co. Waterford