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School: Mc Kelvey's Grove (roll number 9130)

Location:
Loughbrattoge, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Eva Campbell
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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    A dead dog.
    What can you knit without knitting needles?
    Your brow.
    There was a man, he had no eyes
    and he went out to view the skies,
    he saw a tree with apples on,
    he took no apples off
    nor he left no apples on?
    The man had one eye and he saw a tree with two apples on it. He took one off and that left one on.
    Two dead men got up to fight,
    Two blind men were looking on
    and two cripples went for the guards
    and dumb men shouted "hurry on".
    What is that?
    It's a lie.
    What is the shyest thing in the house?
    A Clock.
    Black we re but much admired, men seek for us till they are tired, we tire the horse and comfort men, tell me this riddle if you can?
    Coal
    As I was going through a guttery gap I met my uncle David I pulled his neck and sucked his blood and left his body easy.
    A bottle of wine or a cherry.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Meta Nesbitt
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Tullynageer, Co. Monaghan