School: Mount Collins, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0493, Page 299
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- This black this white and it hops on the ground like hailstone: A Mackpye.
Riddle riddle ree, such a riddle couldn't be through and ass through an ox through an old spinnig wheel. (Tro) Through a little bag of pepper through a horses shin bone. Riddle me that and I'll let you alone?:- A HashI went up the road. I went down the road and I carried the road on my back. :- A ladder. It is under the fire and even the fire and it never touches the fire?:- A lake.
If you were falling off a house what would you fall against?:- Against your consent.
When is a cow like a field?:- When she is turned in.
How many wells would make a river?:-
One if it was big enough.
What wears its guts outside its skin?:- A fiddle.
As plump as round as a ball it climbs over church(continues on next page)
