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School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)

Location:
Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 369

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  1. Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    The King of Manchester sent home to his sister a bottomless vessel to fill it with flesh.
    A ring.
    As I went in a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davie. He had timber toes and iron nose, and you maybe sure he'd frighten the crows.
    A gun.
    Four fair ladies born in the morning, they got the fever and died in the evening.
    Four candles.
    As round as a marble, as flat as a pan. Half a woman and all a man.
    A penny.
    There was a little house a mouse could not live in it, and all the men of the town could not count how many windows in it.
    A thimble.
    Fire under, fire over, and it never touches the fire.
    A cake baking.
    Mamie Mc Carthy,
    Ruhill,
    Boherbee,
    Co. Cork.
    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
    Mamie Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Urraghilbeg, Co. Cork