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School: Eachroim (roll number 14684)

Location:
Aughrim, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Máiréad, Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 248

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    Long legs, short thighs
    Little head and no eyes.
    A tongs.
    A little white and round house,
    And it is full of meat,
    It has no doors or windows
    To let me in to eat.
    An egg.
    Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
    A cake in an oven.
    All patches no stitches,
    Riddle me that and I'll give you my breeches.
    A head of cabbage.
    When is a door not a door?
    When it is ajar.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English