School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 101
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- Riddles (Philip Beagon)
54. What never was, nor never will be: look at your hand and there you will see.
55. What is whiter than the whitest snow (Soul without sin)
56. What is brighter than the stars? (Mother's eye)
- Riddles (James Ward)
57. I went out walking one morning: I got a thing and I kept it until it walked away itself. (An egg).
58. A house full of food and no door to get into the food? (An egg)
59. What eats outside the wood but never goes into the wood? (A pig).
60. I have a cow; she's tied to the wall : and she'd eat all the hay from this to Donegal. (Fire) - Riddles (James Farmer)
61. As I went over yonder hill, I met a piece of timber: It made nine mills, nine kills (kilns?) and a mill hopper (Hatchet)
62. My mistress sent me to your mistress For the loan of the hittick, the hattick The double comattick, the kew(?) boy and the spinning wheel. (Churn staff)
63. I washed my hands in water that never rained nor run: I dried them in a towel that was never made or spun. (Sun and dew)(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Farmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
