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School: Gleann an Chairthe (roll number 13345)

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Seán Mag Ualghairg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 253

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A. Smoke
    R. Useful, useless instrument. From once it is bought it is never lent. they who own it do not know it and they who know it do not own it.
    A. A Coffin
    R. What is the shyest thing in the house?
    A. The block because it covers its face with its hands
    R. What is it that is all holes and can hold up water?
    A. A crook
    R. Hink Hank under a bank ten drawing four.
    A. A person milking a cow
    R. As I was going out on a guttery gap I met a wee man with a red cap. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy.
    A. A bottle of whiskey
    R. As I was going to London I saw a great wonder three pots boiling with no fire under.
    A. Three spring wells
    R. What can God not see?
    A. His own equal
    R. Where was Moses when the light went out?
    A. In the dark
    R. Why are the telegraph poles wanted no longer?
    A. Because they are long enough
    R. What goes into the chop and cannot be sold.
    What goes into the mill and cannot be ground.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Mary Gilligan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Fenagh, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Thomas Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    65
    Address
    Drumdillure, Co. Leitrim