School: Kilkerrin, Leaba Síoda
- Location:
- Kilkerin, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Mac Aindréis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0603, Page 541
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- (continued from previous page)How would you save your soul?
(A.) To walk on your heel.
Gran- mother Ben she had but one eye she had a long tail and it used to fly every time she'd go out the gap a piece of her tail would tie in the trap?
(A.) Needle and thread.
Twenty-fore white cows tied in a stall up comes the red one and licks them all?
(A.) Your Tongue.
Riddle riddle ree such a riddle couldnt be through rocks, stones, through an old cow's udder, through horse's shin bones, such a riddle was never known?
(A.) Lightning.
My father gave me some seed to sow the seed was black and the ground was white riddle me that I will give you a half-pint?
(A.) Ink and paper.
Hairy in, and hairy out, hairy into hairy's mouth?
(A.) A leg inside in a stocking.
- Collector
- Bessie O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
