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School: Iomaire Buí (B.) (roll number 9817)

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Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Gealbháin
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  1. A Collection of Riddles I Heard Locally

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    Eight arms no, hand a wooden leg but cannot stand, is often wet but cannot feel. A dress of silk and a belt around the middle. Could anyone guess to this riddle.
    An umbrella.
    Riddle riddle ree such a riddle could not be through a rick, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a firkin full of butter, through a basin full of pepper, through an old mans shin bone, such a riddle couldn't be know.
    A bullet.
    As round as a marble as plump as a ball can climb all the churches over steeple and all.
    The sun
    I see it you don't see it although it is nearer to you than it is to me.
    The back of your head.
    The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    A coffin.
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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
    E. Mc Sweeney
    Age
    11
    Address
    Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Timothy O' Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Carpenter
    Address
    Doonasleen East, Co. Cork