School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corrdhoire Bán, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 050
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- (continued from previous page)sounds in the town, and earns his master many a pound
A fiddle.
What has and so has a pipe?
A name.
As black as soot, as white as snow, hops on the road like hailstones?
A magpie.
Riddle me, Riddle me randy bow, my father give me seed to sow. The seed was black, the ground was white, riddle me that and I'll give you a pipe?
Ink and paper.
What goes up the chimney down, but won't come down the chimney up?
An umbrella.
Upstairs, downstairs, like a pane of glass, over in yon far room, i saw a pretty lass, rings on her fingers, bells on her toes, tip her in the middle and off she goes?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Carraghar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrdhoire Dubh, Co. Mhuineacháin
