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School: Sruthán an Aifrinn (roll number 13982)

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Massbrook Lower, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 325

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    Humpty Dumpty got a great fall all the horses and all the king’s men would never put Humpty together again. An egg.
    Black and white and red all over. A Newspaper.
    What animal when the head is cut off it,[sic] will be an ox. A fox.
    Up the boreen down the boreen and carries the boreen on his back. A ladder.
    It opens like a barn door and closes like a trap and many things you will think of (that) before you will think of that. An Umbrella.
    What goes up when the rain comes down. An Umbrella.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Charles Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Terryduff, Co. Mayo