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School: Garbally, Banagher

Location:
Garbally, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
D. Ryder
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0817, Page 032

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What goes up a stairs black and white and comes down read.
    A newspaper.
    What is is that never was, or never will be.
    All your fingers the same length.
    As I looked out my father's window I saw dcutty after scutty.
    A terrier after a rabbit.
    Use me well and in everybody, scratch my back and I'm nobody.
    A minnow.
    It would kill a lion, it would kill a bear, it would kill all the birds, that fly in the air.
    Hunger.
    The man that made it never wore it, the man that wore it never saw it, and the man that bought it never used it.
    A coffin.
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Annie Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Garbally, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Kieran Egan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    45
    Address
    Garbally, Co. Offaly