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   What walks on its head? A nail in a shoe.
   Under the water over the water and never touches the water? A woman standing on a bridge with a pail of water on her head.
   Head like a thimble, tail like a rat you may guess fore ever but you couldnt guess that? A pipe.
   Little Nancy stands on a chair the longer she stands the quicker she wears? A lighted candle.
   A flock of white sheep on a red hill here they go there they go now they stand still? Teeth in your gum.
   Riddle me, riddle me, randy o, my father gave me some seeds to sow the seeds were black and the ground was white I will give you a pint if you riddle me that? A letter.
   Under a hat over the head what is that? A persons hair.
   Hoddy, doddy, with a round black body and a big soft hat? A pot.
   What goes up when the sun comes down? A sunshade.
   What goes up when the rain comes down? An Umbrella.
   I have a little house and a mouse couldn't live in it and all the men in the County Down couldn't count all the windows in it? A thimble.
   Patch upon a patch without any stitches? A head of cabbage.
   A steel house with a flaxen tail and a brass man driving him? A woman sewing with a needle, thread and thimble.
   Three men were in a motor car two black men and a white man if the two black men ate the white manwhat was the number of the car? 281.
   Under the fire over the fire and never touches

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Boyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killeacle, Co. Kerry