School: Óméith (roll number 3001)
- Location:
- Omeath, Co. Louth
- Teacher: D. Ó Cuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0657, Page 211
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- (continued from previous page)A bottle of wine.
One half dead, the other half living and a tail waging.
A dog with his head in a pot.
Down in younder valley there's a bunch of willywands, and no one can count them only God's two hands.
The hair on your head.
A little round and white house and it is full of meat, but has no doors or windows ti let me in to eat.
An egg.
What is it the more you take from it the bigger it gets.
A Grave.
Patch upon patch without any stiches, riddle me that and I'll give you a pair britches.
A Cabbage.
as black as ink, as white as milk and hop on the roas like hailstones.
A Magpie.
Long legs, crocked thighs, we head and no eyes.
The tongs
I washed my face in the water which(continues on next page)
