School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)

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1. Collection of Riddles (continued)

   

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   A motor car carrying people.
   As round as an apple as flat as a pan. Tis half of a woman and half of a man?
   A penny.
   Why is a dog like a tree?
   Because when they both die, they lose their bark.

   

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2. Collection of Riddles

   

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   My mother sent me to the wood for breasna, she told me not to bring a straight stick or a crooked stick but to bring Breasna? Breasna was the name of a dog. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? A bake in an oven. Long legged father, big body mother, three little children all dying with the hunger? A pot. What is it the poor man has, The rich man wants, The blind man sees, The deaf man hears? Nothing. Where do you always find happiness? In the Dictionary. Around the house, around the house, and sleeps in the corner? The brush. What is the smallest bridge in the world?

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lilly Blackmore

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cappagh, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mr Ned Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   69

   Address

   Jessfield, Co. Tipperary