School: Loughshinny (roll number 8434)
- Location:
- Loughshinny, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: James Monks
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- (continued from previous page)devils digging up the ground. What did I see? A man harrowing
- Hink hank under the bank ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow.Riddle me a riddle me row a teeth like a cat and bends like a bow? A saw.What is it that goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in a mans boot.I have a little house and it would not a mouse and it has as many windows as the Lord Mayors house? A timbleShe has feet upon her and walk upon none she goes far from her dwelling and seldom comes home? A shipOpens like a barn door, and shuts like a trap, you would think of many a thing but you would not think of that? An umberellaBlack and white and red all over? A newspaperWhat is it that goes to a door and never walks? A pathBetween too waters an between two woods(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Mc Girl
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baldongan, Co. Dublin