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   In Samson's park there walks a deer with gilted horns and shagnalere, he is neither fish, flesh, feathers nor bones, but in Samson's park he walks alone.
   A snail is the answer.
   What rings in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound.
   A fiddle is the answer.
   What goes round and around the wood but never goes into the wood.
   Answer a ditch.
   As I went over the garden wall I heard a wee man giving a call his head was bone and his mouth was horn and such a man was never born.
   Answer a cock crowing.
   What goes over the field and never comes back ?
   Answer a pad.
   As round as an apple as plomp as a ball as high as the market house steeple and all.
   Answer the sun.
   I have a big goose she is a wonderful size and the people who would go near her would need to be wise, she goes far for her living she is seldom at home she has two feet and to legs but she walks upon none.
   Answer a ship.
   Blackie and whiteie went over a hill, blackie came back but whitie stood still.
   A hen and her egg.
   What is the usefullest thing in the house and the lest thought of.
   Answer a dish cloth.
   Forty sheep went through a gap forty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that.
   Answer 5

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Edward Mc Cormick

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tanderagee, Co. Monaghan