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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   lying there easy. A bottle of wine.

   What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window? The snow.

   As I went down the road one day saw three pots boiling and no fire under, what was that? Three spring wells rising up.
   I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse, and there are as many windows on it as the kings big house. A thimble.

   I sat on my hunkers and looking out through my winkers I saw the dead burying the living. Ashes raking the fire.

   What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in every hole
   The sun.

   Tink, tank, under the bank, ten drawing four? A man milking a cow

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Fred Forbes

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Mary Cullen

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dergvone, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Michael J. Gilmartin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Dergvone, Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Nora Mc Hugh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Coollegreane, Co. Leitrim