School: Drumatemple (C.) (roll number 7055)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   children.
   What where they?
   A man, a woman and a child.

   As white as snow, but snow it isn't.
   As green as grass, but grass it isn't.
   As red as blood, but blood it isn't.
   As black as ink, but ink it isn't.
   A blackberry.

   The man who made it never wore it
   And the man who wore it never saw it.
   A coffin.

   From house to house, and out all night.
   The road.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   Round the house and round the house, and all heads down? Nails in a man's shoes.
   Chip chop cherry, All the men of Derry would not climb chip chop cherry? Smoke.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Croghan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bookalagh, Co. Galway