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School: Castlegannon, Mullinavat (roll number 13028)

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Castlegannon, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 270

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  3. XML “Herbs”
  4. XML “An Old Way of Sowing Seed”
  5. XML “Riddles”

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  1. Herbs (continued)

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    It should be boiled and rubbed to the sore.
    The root of the dock-leaf and fresh butter is used for curing itch. You mix the dock-leaf and the fresh butter together and rub them to the itch.
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  2. An Old Way of Sowing Seed

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Hogan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballytarsna, Co. Kilkenny

  3. Riddles

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    What is it that has four legs in the morning, two at noon and three at night -
    Answer. A Christian.
    Which letter in the Alphabet is the cleanest -
    Answer. The letter H. Because it is in the middle of washing.
    What country is in the house -
    Answer - China.
    A pig behind two pig a pig before two pig a pig in the middle between two pig. How man pigs is that -
    Answer Three (nine) pigs.
    If a snail went up a pole twelve feet long
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