School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lainn Chille, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 12_054
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- Hopping, Hopping on the grass, riddle me that and I will give you glass.
Hail-stones.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you would not guess that.
A pipe.
What lies along the wall and eats all it gets and drinks nothing.
A fire.
What goes around the house and round the house with his head downwards
A nail in a boot.
Forty sheep went out the gap, forty more followed that, the shepherd and his dog. How many feet went out the gap.
Two feet.
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lainn Mhór, Co. Mhaigh Eo
