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

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1. A Collection of Riddles I Heard Locally (continued)

   

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   Fire under it, fire over it but never touches the fire.
   A cake baking.

   As round as a marble as flat as a pan, half a woman and half a man.
   A penny.

   Two rows of white cows and a red one in the middle.
   Two rows of teeth and your tongue in the middle.

   What always walks with its head down.
   A nail in a boot.

   It is black it is white and it read all over.
   A news paper.

   When was beef the highest.
   When the cow jumped over the moon.

   Why do a cow go over a ditch.
   Because she couldn't go under it.

   What smells most in a perfumers shop.
   Your nose.

   Spell broken down ditch in three letters.
   Gap.

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   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