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School: Tullyvin

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Tullyvin, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
M. Feeney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 332

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    go down the chimney up - An Umbrella.
    It grows in the wood, and rings through the town, and earns its master many a pound. - A Violin
    What is it that has three legs, and cannot walk? - A stool
    What is it that has four legs, and a top and bottom? - A bed.
    What flies high, flies low, has no shoes, and yet wears shoes out. - A football
    What runs fast, and has no legs? - Water out of a tap.
    What turns without moving? - milk.
    What has neither flesh nor bones and has four fingers and a thumb? - A glove.
    Blackie and whitie went up the hill, blackie came down and
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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
    Philomena B. Fox
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corgreagh, Co. Cavan