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School: Carraig Áluinn (roll number 16.474)

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Carrigallen, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Pádhraic Mag Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 004

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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    17. Four and twenty white cows
    Eating in a stall
    Up comes a red bull
    And licks them all.
    Tongue & teeth
    18. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat,
    You may guess for ever, but you'll never guess that.
    A pipe.
    19. As I went out on yonder gap
    I met my Uncle Davy
    I cut off his head and sucked his blood
    And left him lying "Aisy"
    Blackberry
    20. What is full and holds more?
    Pot of potatoes
    21. What sleeps with its finger in its eye?
    Crooks
    22. How may feet have forty sheep
    The shepherd and his dog?
    Two
    23. Spell broken-down ditches in 3 letters
    Gap.
    24. If I were on an ass's back where would I get down?
    On a goose's back
    25. By struggling to live and working for death
    The fairest King of Terror allows me no ease
    That death so much annoys.
    Coffin-maker.
    26. Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes.
    Tongs
    27. What goes round the house and round the house and leaves a loaf in every window?
    Snow.
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        1. riddles (~7,209)
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