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School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 379

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    legs after four legs and brings one leg back.
    A man on a three legged chair, a leg of mutton in his lap, the dog ran away with it.
    Says the child to the father how doesn’t come come that you are my father and I am not your son.
    A girl.
    As I went out a gutters gap I met my Uncle Davy. I cut his throat and drank his blood and left him lying easy.
    A bottle of whiskey.
    A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in New York. But the fiddler in New York had no brother a fiddler in Cork.
    It was his sister.
    How many feet in forty sheep, the shepherd and his dog.
    Two.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cáit Nic Ghiolla Mhártain
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumfad, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Brigid Mc Garraghy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rathfrask, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Maura Foley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilcat, Co. Sligo