School: Convent Girls' School, Ballymote
- Location:
- Ballymote, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sr. M. Patrick
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- 1 Long man legless, came to door
stepless, saying "Keep in your ducks your dog I'm not afraid of."
Answer - A worm
2
A leaper of hedges, a clipper of thorns
A little brown cow with two leather horns
Answer - A hare3 Useless useful instrument, once it is bought it is never lent. The mans that buys it never owns it, the man that loads it never knows it.
Answer - A coffin6 What is it that if it is not long enough cut a bit off it and it will be long enough
Answer - A grave7 A sheet full of crumbs and a bunnock in the middle.
Answer - The moon and stars(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Dyer
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Frank Dyer
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 86
- Address
- Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo