School: Summerville (roll number 622)
- Location:
- Summerville, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: John Burke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 19
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- (continued from previous page)six to be riddled and one got free if that's answered hung I will be.
A robins nest in a mans skull.
As I went out a slippery gap I meant my uncle Davy, I cut off his head and left his body easy.
A head of cabbage.
Riddle me riddle me ranty roe
My father gave me seed to sow
The seed was black and the ground was white
Riddle me that and I'll give you a pint.
A newspaper.
As black as soot, as white as snow, it hops like hailstones on the ground.
A magpie.
There was a man of Adams race,
He had no certain dwelling place
He wasn't in heaven, he wasn't in Hell
He wasn't on Earth where men could dwell.
Jonah in the whale.
Riddle me riddle ranty o
My father gave me seeds to(continues on next page)
