School: Ballyhahill (C.) (roll number 10686)

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   31. What is it that is not sold?
   The clear day light, and the running water.

   32. Twenty sick sheep, went out a gap, one died. How many came back?
   Nineteen.

   33. There is a thing in the wall, and it eats everything.
   A fire.

   34. As I was walking on the road. I met five fingers, and no bone.
   A glove.

   35. Riddle me, riddle me, what is that over the head, and under the hat?
   Hair on the head.

   36. Spell a red rogue in three letters.
   A fox.

   37. Biddy under the ditch, and Biddy over the ditch.
   A nettle.

   38. I caught up a ball of snow, and I threw it up in the air, and when it came down it was yellow.
   An egg.

   39. Lady page in her cage, like a golden hen. All her children died of age, and herself is living still.
   An apple tree.

   40. What is that which we can always see, the King seldom sees and God never sees.
   An equal.

   41. I washed my hands in water, that never rained on man, and I dried them in a towel that was never woven or spun.
   I washed them in the dew, and dried them in the sun.

   42. What can go up the chimney down, and cannot come down the chimney up?
   An umbrella.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Mc Eniry

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tooraree Upper, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs Dan O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   81

   Address

   Glin, Co. Limerick