School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (1) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy He had iron nose and timber toes and upon my word he could frighten the crows?
A. A gun.(2) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and left his body aisy?
A. A head of cabbage.(3) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body aisy?
A. A bottle of stout.(4) Q. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. He had a bundle of rods and no one could count them but God.
A. The hairs on a boy's head.(5) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. I put him into my pocket before the crows'd ate him.
A. A Pratie.(6) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy; he began to pinch me and I began to bate him. I threw him out to the ducks to ate him.
A. A hot pratie or A Frog.(7) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met a man with a red cap. He had a stone in his stomach and a stick in his back.
A. A Haw.(8) Q. As I went up Derry wall, I heard a dead man's call. Skinny mouth and beak of horn, such a creature was never born.
A. A cock crowing.(9) Q. As I went out, I soon came in: cut from the dead the live did spring. No tree did shake, no leaf did fall, and that's my riddle among ye all.
A. A bird coming out of a dead man's skull on a tree.(10) Q. As I went out a slippery gap, I met a man. He took off his hat and drew on his gloves. What was his name?
A. Andrew.(11) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. He had a red hue and part of him glue and he was taking the world aisy.
Ans. A ball.