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School: Tang (roll number 8037)

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T. Ó Caisil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0746, Page 493

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    driver.
    One trains the mind and the other minds the train.
    As round as an apple as flat as a pan.
    One side a woman and the other a man.
    A penny
    The longer it lives the shorter it grows.
    A candle.
    Why is P like a bad friend?
    Because its first in Pity and last in Help.
    As I looked out on my window,
    I saw a wonderful thing, I saw the dead carrying the live.
    And wasn't that a wonderful thing.
    A man riding a bicycle.
    What has ears and can't hear.
    The ears of a pot.
    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
    J. P. Corrigan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    10
    Informant
    Mrs M. Corrigan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corbrack, Co. Westmeath