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School: Fuerty (roll number 16162)

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Fuerty, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Freathaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0264, Page 012

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A. The road.
    Q. What is black and white and read all over?
    A. A paper.
    Q. Flies high, flies low, has no shoes but wears some?
    A. A football.
    Q. What goes out between two woods and comes back between two waters?
    A. A man fetching water in pails.
    Q. What stick does not grow in a wood?
    A. A candlestick.
    Q. What man is always making faces?
    A. A clockmaker.
    Q. Hard working father, lazy old mother, twelve little children all the one colour. What it it?
    A. A clock.
    Q. Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches?
    A. A head of cabbage.
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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
    Brian Coyne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Fuerty, Co. Roscommon