School: Scoil na mBráthar, Carraig na Siúire (roll number 16725)

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   and a teacher?
   A. One minds the train and the other trains the mind
   R. What is it has one leg one eye and no body?
   A. A neddle.
   R. Four bottles without corks hanging up side down under a hill and yet they will not spill?
   A. A Cow's dug.
   R. Name a stare with a (tale) tail
   A. Micky Mouse.
   R. Nelly inside the ditch Nelly outside the ditch, if you touch Nelly she will burn you
   A. A nettle.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   R. Four white bottles on a hill turned down but never spill. A. A cow's tits. R. As I looked out through by bed room window I left my Gold ring fall I saw the dead burying the live, wasn't that a lovely thing. A. A ship sinking. R. As black as ink and yet not ink, as white as milk and yet not milk and it can hop on the road like a hail stone?

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James Lonergan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary