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School: Clontubrid, Freshford

Location:
Clontubbrid, Co. Kilkenny
Teachers:
Siobhán Bean Uí Mheachair Tomás de Bháldraithe
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    What bed is soft, well covered and nicely made, yet is not meant to be slept in?
    A flower bed.
    What two trees remind us most of the seaside?
    The bay and the beach
    Why is dancing like new milk?
    Because it strengthens the calves
    As round as a apple as plump as a a ball can climb the church over steeple and all?
    The sun.
    Why is the sun like a hard working carpenter?
    Because he is putting beams in all day.
    Middy-noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat?
    A pot.
    What is it always walks with its head down?
    A nail in your boot
    Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you couldn't guess that?
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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
    Lil Bowden
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balleen Lower, Co. Kilkenny