School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)16. As I went through the garden gap, who should I meet but Dick Red Cap, a stick in his hand and a stone in his throat, if you tell me this riddle I'll give you a groat.?. A cherry.
17. What is cut in the wood, and sounds in the town, and earns his master many a pound.?. A fiddle.
18. Two arms, two tails, a neck and no head?. A shirt.
19. Black and white, and well desired, men and horses they have tired. They pared my head, and shaved my face, and took me from my dwelling place? Turf.
20. Four stiff standards, four dilly danders, two hookers, two lookers, and a wag about? A cow.
21. A little brown cow tied to the wall would eat all the hay from here to Donegal? The fire
22. Chip chip cherry, all the men in Derry could not climb chip chip cherry? The smoke.
23. Why are you a more carpenter than I am? Because you are a great deal plainer.
24. Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry, spell me that without a K? That.
25. If Ireland were to be drowned what(continues on next page)
