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School: Keeny

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Keeny, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 471

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    What is the smallest bridge in the world?
    The bridge of your nose.
    Riddle me, riddle me randiro my father gave me a seed to sow. The seed was black and the ground was white. Riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe.
    Writing a letter.
    I have a little round and white house and it is full of meat but has no doors nor windows to let me into eat. What is that.
    An egg.
    When I was young they did me cut and under the ground they did me put. When I was scarcely three months old they came to look for my abode. With Iorn hand they did me turn, with fire and pot they did me burn and then they stripped me all in my skin and found a hole to put me in.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Fitzsimons
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derryhoo, Co. Cavan