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   Guesses 1. I sat on my hunkers and I looked through my willie winker and I saw the dead burying the living. I sat down on my heels and I saw a person burying the coals with ashes. 2. I went into the wood and I got it and I came out and looked for it and I went home without it. A jag in my foot. 3. How can you compare a horse's neck collar to a ship? Because both go over the main. 4. What part of the cow goes in the byre door the first? Her breath. 5. As I went round Derry wall I heard an old man's call. His head was flesh, his mouth was horn, and such a man was never born. A rooster. 6. Spell broken down ditch in three letters? Gap. 7. Spell hard water in three letters? Ice. 8. Spell black water in three letters?

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Jeanie Neely

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Treantagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mr Matthew Mc Mahon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   27

   Address

   Treantagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mrs Eliza Jane Neely

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   43

   Address

   Treantagh, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Mr James Neely

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   19

   Address

   Treantagh, Co. Donegal