School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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    for telling her name and thats three times I have told it?
    And
    What goes round the house and round the house and goes into every wee hole?
    The sun.
    A jumper of ditches a cropper of corn my wee cow has to leather horns?
    A rabbit
    As I went up the slippy slap. I met my uncle David I cut his throat and sucked his blood and left him lying easy?
    A bottle of whiskey.
    Three boys were locked in a room and there was nothing in the room but a calander and a clock. How did they get food and how did they get out
    They got from the water spring of the clock some water and got dates from the calander and all broke out in measels.
    What has wings and cannot fly?
    A cart.
    When is a shoe-maker nerest his end?
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dolly Steele
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Three Trees, Co. Donegal