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School: Mercy Convent

Location:
Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
The Sisters
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 019

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 019

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    7. What walks with its head down?
    (A nail in a boot)
    8. As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb the church over steeple and all?
    (The sun)
    9. There is a tiny house; it would not hold a mouse and it has many windows as the King's big house.
    (Thimble)
    10. What is the most useful thing in the house and the least thought of?
    (The dish-cloth)
    11. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood?
    (The bark of a tree)
    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
    Sadie Herron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Belturbet, Co. Cavan