School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gabhrán, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 18-1-38 Riddles
What is full & holds more.
A pot full of potatoes when you pour water in.
If a man got sixpence for walking thirty miles what would be get for walking a hundred miles.
Sore feet.
What is the half of the moon (life) like.
The other half.
What part of a cow goes in to the gap first.
The breath.
What is black & white and red all over.
A book.
Why do a cow look over a ditch.
Because he could not look under it.
Headed like thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you will not guess that.
A pipe.
Theres a thing not a big as a mouse but it has more windows than a kings house.
A thimble.
What goes round the wood & round(continues on next page)- Collector
- Brigid Breen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gabhrán, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Charles Lunn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Gabhrán, Co. Chill Chainnigh