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School: Park (roll number 9717)

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Kilclammon, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0898, Page 072

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    his blood and left his body easy.?
    A. A bottle of stout
    Q. A head like a thimble a tail like a rat
    riddle me anything and you won't riddle me that.?
    A. A pipe
    Q. Two legs hanging and four legs banging
    A. A man riding a horse.
    Q. What goes up a ladder with its head down?
    A. A nail in a mans boot
    Q. What goes from house to house and stops out in the night ?
    A. A path
    Q. The is a little thing not as big as a mouse it has more windows than in all the king's house ?
    A. A thimble.
    Q. As round as an apple as flat as a pan the head of a woman the whole of a man ?
    A. A penny
    Q. A round as an apple as deep as a pail it
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary O' Neill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballylane East, Co. Wexford