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School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

Location:
Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 083

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    and I could not lift more than a spoonful?
    Smoke.
    What goes round the house and round the house and lies at the door?
    A dog.
    A jumper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a little cow with two leather horns.
    A rabbit.
    Its inside on you, its outside on you, but its not heavy?
    Your name.
    A green man in a garden with a hundred coats on him?
    A head of cabbage.
    If a pound of tea, a dozen of eggs, a pot of jam, comes to four and sixpence what will a ton of coal come to?
    Ashes.
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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
    The senior class
    Informant
    Riddles from their parents