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School: Lattoon

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    you riddle me that I will give you a pipe. Ans. Ink and paper.
    45. Riddle me Riddle me Rí I have me eye and cannot see. Ans. a needle.
    46. When are the most holes open.
    Ans. When the corn is cut.
    47. When Johnnie Paterson and the Elephant went over to America, What did the Elephant bring that Johnnie Paterson didn't?
    Ans. His trunk.
    48. What goes round the hole and round the hole and jumps into the hole?
    Ans. A man putting on his stocking.
    48. As white as milk as black as silk hopping on the road like hailstones.
    Ans. A willie wag tail.
    49. I know a little house that is always full of meat but it has no doors or windows to let me in to eat.
    Ans. An egg.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Coyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lattoon, Co. Cavan