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   Ans = A brother and sister.
   9. Twenty white horses up on a red hill. Picking and eating and lying there still. Ans = Teeth.
   10. As I walked down the garden-side, I saw the live living in the dead. Six there were and seven there be. Guess that and then hang me. Ans = A nest of swallows in in a dead horse's ear.
   11. What always walks with their head down. Ans = nails in a man's boots.
   12. It grew in the wood. It works in the town. Many is, the crown it earns its master. Ans = A fiddle.
   13. As black as ink as white as milk and hops on the road like a hailstone. Ans = A magpie.
   14. Middy moddy mind body three feet and a hat. Ans = A pot.
   15. What the poor man has the rich man wants what the miser spends the spendthrift keeps. Ans = Nothing.
   16. When is a girls hair like the sea. Ans = When it is in waves.
   17. I saw a great goose. She is a great size. The man that owns her needs to be wise. She has feet in her . belly and walk upon none. She goes far

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Mc Manus

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   Female

   Address

   Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim

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   Annie Reilly

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   Female

   Address

   Annaghkeenty, Co. Leitrim

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   Annie Tighe

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   Female

   Address

   Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim

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   Kathleen Casey

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   Female

   Address

   Corderry (Peyton), Co. Leitrim

   Collector

   Mary Gaffney

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   Address

   Lisdromarea North, Co. Leitrim

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   Monica O Hara

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   Female

   Address

   Millpark, Co. Leitrim

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   Rose Ann Banaghan

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   Female

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   Drumgowla, Co. Leitrim