School: Fermoyle, Lanesboro (roll number 13321)

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1. Riddles (continued)

   

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   "Why are old stockings like mice" "Because they run quickly into holes.
   "Londonderry Cork and Kerry. Spell me that without a K"
   "That"
   "Twenty four white bulls standing in a row. Up jumps the red bull and leaps across them all"
   "The tongue leaping the teeth"
   As green as grass, as red as blood, as black as polish, and as sweet as honey"
   "A blackberry"
   "A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, my little brown cow with her two leather horns"
   " A hare"
   "My uncle's legs are bandy as crooked as they can be and knotted in the middle"
   "A pot hooks"
   "As I went out in yonder gap I met my uncle Davy. I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying easy"
   "A man with a bottle of whiskey"
   "As I looked in my little window. I saw the dead carrying the life"
   "A man in a boat"
   "Why does a cat lick"
   "Because he cannot pick"

   

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   Topics

   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. tomhaiseanna (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sheila Kenny

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Formaoil (Newcowen), Co. an Longfoirt

   Informant

   Mrs John Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   56

   Address

   Formaoil (Newcowen), Co. an Longfoirt