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School: Cill Ábhaill

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Killavil, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Conláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0391

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    Q. It' deep and it's dark and in green on the bank and it's fit for the Lord or the Lady?
    A. A grave
    Q. What has a bed and never sleep, has a mouth and never eats & always keeps amoving?
    A. A river
    Q. When may many a man's pocket be empty and yet something in it?
    A. When there's a hole in it.
    Q. What is the longest word in the English language?
    A, Smiles, because there is a miles between the first and the last letter.
    Q. Headed like a thimble and tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you won't guess that.
    A. A pipe.
    Q.In marble halls as white as milk lined with the skin as soft as silk within a fountain crystal clear a golden apple doth appear. No doors are there in this strong hold yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
    A. An egg
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    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
    Bernadette Kilcawley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballonaghan or Harristown, Co. Sligo