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School: Doire an Céise (C )

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Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
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Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 157

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    away?
    Your word.
    Long legs, crooked thighs, little head and no eyes.
    Fire tongs.
    As round as an apple, as plump as a pear, split in the middle and surrounded by hair.
    Your eye.
    Patch upon patch, without any stitches, riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches.
    A head of cabbage.
    Black and white and read all over.
    A newspaper.
    What goes round the house and round the house and lies in the corner at night?
    The brush.
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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
    Kathleen Floody
    Gender
    Female