School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)longer she sits the shorter she gets (Candle)
44. Clipper the hedges, tapper the ditches: a wee brown cow with a leather pair of horns (Hare)
45. What goes through the water and through the water and never gets wet (An egg in a duck)
46. The long legged father, the big stomached mother the three little children all the same colour (Pot)
47. What two things is cold in all times of the year? (Dog's nose and woman's elbow)
48. What part of the cow goes up the hill first? (Her breath)
49. As I was going up the corn hill, the corn hill was shaking: four and twenty wee things tearing up a nation (Harrow)
- 50. As I walked out as I walked in : I saw the dead the living in, six sat, seven fled; Riddle me that or I will kill you dead? (A birds nest in a horse's skull).
51. What is it that God never saw? (His own equal.)
52. As white as milk, as black as ink, and hops on the road like hail stones (Magpie)
53. As I sat on my hunkers and looked with my winkers, I saw the dead hurrying the line (Woman making a fire) - Collector
- Kathleen Rocks
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
