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School: Corlurgan

Location:
Corlurgan, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
F. Fletcher
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  1. A Collection of Riddles (continued)

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    a persons boot. What goes round the house and leaves white loaves in the window? Snow. A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brown cow in a pair of leather horns? A hare. What is that which everybody has seen but will never see again? Yesterday. What is that when you look at it it is somebody but scratch its back and it is nobody? A mirror. Black and white and read all over? A newspaper. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up? A well. What has an eye and cannot see? A needle. What goes through the wood and through the wood and never touches it? A knife in a persons pocket.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eugene Flood
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullycoe, Co. Cavan