School: St Brigid's, Castleknock
- Location:
- Castleknock, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mrs Thornton
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“Near Castleknock there was a woman and a man and their son.”
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TeaHairy all over, rough in the skin two things wagging and won going in
A pigRiddle me riddle me meree such a fiddle culd never be. Through a rock, through a bell. Through an old spinning wheel.
Through a basin full of pepper. Through an old sheep's trotter. Through horses skin bone such a riddle was never known.
Thunder.