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School: Laragh

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Laragh, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
M. Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1007, Page 064

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    a coach that never rumbles, and a loaf that never crumble.
    What sleeps all night with its finger in its eye?
    A crook
    What sleeps all night with its hands on it face?
    A clock
    Little Jenny huddle in a puddle
    With a white petticoat and a green gown?
    A rush
    What goes from house to house and never stirs?
    A path
    "Little Jenny with a long white nose,
    The longer she lives the shorter it grows"
    A candle.
    What part of a cow goes up the hell first?
    The breath
    What goes round the house, and its head downwards.
    Nail in boot
    What has holes, and can hold water?
    A crook
    What rises in the wood, and sounds in the town, and earns its master manys a crown?
    A fiddle
    Blackie and whitie went up the hill,
    Blackie came back, and whitie stood still - Hen and egg
    What has two eyes and can't see?
    A scissors.
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    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
    Lena Farrelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Leiter, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Philip Farrelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Leiter, Co. Cavan