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   for and twenty blackbirds tearing the world asunder.
   A. A man harrowing.
   Q. Six feet three is my degree, no house can do without me, invert my name and you will find forty perches exactly.
   A. A door.
   Q. Four stiff standards, four diddly danders, two peepers, two pockers, a licker and a switcher.
   A. A cow.
   Q A leaper of ditches, a clipper of corn, a bony brown cow with a pair of leather horns.
   A. A hare.
   Q. Long legs, short thighs, little head and no eyes.
   A. The tongs.
   Q. As round as a thimble, a tail like a rat, you may guess for ever and you would never guess that.
   A. A pipe.
   Q. What goes round the house and round the house and peeps in through every window.
   A. The sun.
   Q. I have two pigs in yonder sty when they get food they roar and cry and when they get none quiet they lie.
   A. Two millstones.
   Q. Black and white went up the hill black came down

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Margaret M. O' Reilly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumamry, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Hugh O' Reilly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   62