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School: Gort Sceithe (roll number 13062)

Location:
Gortskehy, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Cléirigh
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    102. My master sent me to the fair of Tuam with a score of cattle. He gave me 1/2d when I was going. I had to pay 1d custom going in. I hadn't any money but the 1/2d and I didn't borrow any 1d, and still I paid the penny How did I pay?
    (I borrowed a 1/2d)
    103. A fiddler in Ballinrobe had a brother a fiddler in Dublin, and the fiddler in Dublin had no brother a fiddler in Ballinrobe
    (A sister he had in Ballinrobe)
    104. How would you bring a fox, a goose and a sheaf of oats across a lake in a boat without letting the fox kill the goose or the goose eat the oats?
    (Bring over the goose first and leave her beyond. Go back again and bring over the sheaf of oats. Bring back the goose and leave her behind. Bring over the fox to the sheaf of oats and go back again and bring over the goose.)
    105. The school-master and his daughter and the minister's wife and himself went into the wood. They got a bird's next with four eggs in it. They took an egg each. How many was left?
    (one - the schoolmaster's daughter was the minister's wife)
    106. Why is the wheel of a cart like a nice girl?
    (Because there's a lot of fellows round it)
    107. What is it that grows on my land. Turn it over and it grows on my hand?
    (Straw ... warts)
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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
    Tomás Ó Cléirigh
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Address
    Annefield, Co. Mayo