School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)
- Location:
- Baile Anraí, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)Two Crookers,
And a wheel about.A Cow.
As I was going to London
I saw a great wonder,
Two pots boiling,
And no fire under.A spring well.(continues on next page) - A man was going to be hanged one day. The people said that they would leave him off if he would bring in a riddle that they could not answer. he went out into a graveyard and he came back with the following riddle.
"As I walked out, as I walked in. I saw death abroad and life within. Six stood and the seventh went free. Riddle me that and hung I will be?" He saw a dead mans skull in the graveyard(continues on next page)