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Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 153

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    and I am fourty perch exactly
    A door
    20. Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world yet never five weeks old?
    The moon
    21. What grows in the wood,
    And sounds in the town,
    And earns its master many a pound?
    A fiddle
    22. I have a little man above in the field,
    When I'll pull his leg his nose will bleed?
    A pump.
    23. If Jack's father is Pat's brother what is Jack to Pat's mother?
    A grandson.
    24. If a fellow meet a fellow in a field of beans, says a fellow to a
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    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
    Sue Reilly
    Gender
    Female