School: Star of the Sea, Glengivney (roll number 12334)

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1. Local Riddles (continued)

   

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   And climbed up the hill so high, high high.
   And dear little sister has a very bright eye?
   Ans. A star.
   Q. Hoddy, doddy with a round black body and a big flat hat?
   Ans. A pot
   Q. I have a little house it would not hold a mouse and there are more windows in it than in the kings house?
   Ans. A thimble
   Q. What walks on it's head all day and sleeps in its own dirt at night?
   Ans. A nail in your shoe.
   Q. Londonderry Cork and Kerry spell that without a K?
   Ans. T-H-A-T.
   Q. Long legs short thighs are head and no eye's?
   Ans. Tongs.
   Q. It's long and narrow and not very wide with a bunch of green ribbens to every [?]
   Ans. A road.
   Q. Forty sheep went in a gap, forty more followed that 6,7,10,11, 2 and 3 how many is that.
   Ans. Five.
   Q. As I went up a slippery slap I met my Uncle David I cut off his head and sucked his blood and left his body there.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maura Mc Gonagle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal