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School: Cloch Rua (roll number 11111)

Location:
Cloghroe, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Nábla Nic Amhlaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1101, Page 047

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  1. List of Riddles (continued)

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    What goes around the wood, and around the wood, and never gets into the wood?
    Ans. A bark of a tree,
    How many wells would make a river?
    Ans. One of it was big enough.
    What is the weest thing in the world?
    Ans. A mote in a midges eye.
    How many hairs in a cat's tail?
    Ans. None at all it is all fur.
    What is in the middle of you, thats not in the middle of me?
    Ans. O.
    It grows in the wood it sounds in the town, it earns his master many's a pound?
    Ans. A fiddle
    How many feet has forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog?
    Ans. Two feet.
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    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
    Margaret Walsh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lettermakenny, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Oliver Leeper
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Lettermakenny, Co. Donegal