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School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)

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Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 428

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    (continued from previous page)
    The man that buys it never wears it and the man the wears it never sees it.
    (A Habit)
    If it takes twenty minutes to wash a baby, what will it take to dry it?
    (A towel)
    As I was going to Sandy Hill
    Sandy Hill was shaking.
    All the birds of Sandy Hill
    Gathered into an acre.
    (A Funeral)
    Two eyes and cannot see
    Four legs and cannot walk
    And yet can jump the height of "Nelson's Pillar"
    (A dead donkey; Nelson's Pillar cannot jump)
    On fine day in the middle of the night
    Two dead men got up to fight
    Two blind men looked on
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Davey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tobercurry, Co. Sligo