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School: Mullagh (C )

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Mullagh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
Elizabeth Murchan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 289

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    Hink-hank under bank; ten drawing four? - "A woman milking a cow!"
    Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes? - "A tongs!"
    Headed like a thimbkle, tailed like a rat. You may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that? "A pipe".
    I fired up a white ball against a wall and it came down yellow? - "An egg"!
    What poet was never slow? "Swift"!
    Two eyes and cannot see? - "A Scissors"!
    Four stiff standers, four lily landers;
    two huckers; two cruckers and a whip about?- "A cow"!
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie O Reilly
    Gender
    Female