School: Na Cloichíní, Carraig Ruacháin (roll number 12676)

Location:
Clogheen, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Coisdealbha
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    Because he never told a lie.
    What goes away from home between two woods and comes home between two waters.
    A man fetching two pails of water.
    Two N's two o's an L and a D put them together and spell them for me.
    London.
    Two A's two g's an r and an e put them together and spell them for me.
    Garage.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a britches.
    A cabbage.
    As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all.
    The Sun.
    There were a lot of people in a carriage and then was not a single one in it.
    They were all married.
    There was a was a cow who wanted to go to England he did not go by air or by rail by land or by sea. How
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Mackey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clogheen, Co. Cork