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School: Garvagh

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Drutamon, Co. Cavan
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S. Burrows
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 332

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    Q What do you break immediately you say it?
    A Silence.
    Q Head without hair.
    Teeth without lips.
    A long leg and no hips.?
    A A rake.
    Q Riddle me riddle me andy oh.
    My father gave me some seed to sow.
    The seed was black the ground white.
    Riddle me that I will give you a pipe.?
    A Ink and paper
    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
    James Hicks
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cornasaus, Co. Cavan