School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)

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   nuns to remove the dead nun out of the field. When he was saying these words he pounced his leg against the ground and he got a pain in it. When he went to bed that night his leg started to swell and it kept swelling until it was as big as his whole body. He could not stick the pain in his leg and he went mad with it and he died. His people had to get a big wide coffin made for him.

   

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   “Riddles me riddle me and me now...”

   

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   Riddle me riddle me and me row, Me father gave me some seeds to grow When the seeds began to grow, It was like a garden full of Snow, When the snow began to fall It was like a bird upon the wall When the bird began to fly It was like a needle int he sky When the sky began to rattle It was like a soldier in the field of battle

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Daly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tipperary, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Daly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tipperary, Co. Tipperary