School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- Location:
- Laghy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Mac Pháidín
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- (continued from previous page)What grows in the would[?] wood and sounds in the town and earns its Master many a pound.
Answer A fiddleWhat is too short but a bit of it and make it long enough
Answer a graveChip, chip cherry all the men in Derry could not climb up chip, chip cherry
Answer SmokeI bought a wee bird at a costly price. Those that buy her need to be wise. She carries her wing above her womb and she takes her lodging far from home. Answer a shipA head like a thimble a tail like a rat, Ill give you a penny if you riddle me that.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maggie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghs, Co. Donegal