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School: Shannow

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Shannow Wood, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
B. Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 236

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    What runs and has no legs
    Answer. A tap.
    What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound.
    Answer. A Violen.
    What goes through the wood and through the wood and leaves a hankerchief on every tree. Answer the snow.
    What is full and holds more.
    Answer. A pot of potatoes.
    What is the only thing that can live in a fire. Answer. A live coal
    What bears and never bloosoms
    Answer A crook
    A man went out between two woods and came back between two waters. Answer A man carrying two pails of water
    What kind of a face should an
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    42
    Address
    Redhills, Co. Cavan