School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0146, Page 23
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- (continued from previous page)not climb up chip, chap, cherry.
(Smoke)
Humpty dumpty sat on a wall humpty, dumpty got a great fall, and all the kings horses and all the kings men couldent put humpty, dumpty together again
(an Egg)
It was too short and cut a bit of it will be long enough
(a grave)
Riddle me riddle me in a tree, I see them who cannot see me, I see the ash cutting the wash and answer that for me.
(a man who was digging a grave for his girl and she was in a tree beside the place)
On what side of a jug is the handle.
(On the outside)
Hoddy, doddy with a round fat body and a big flat hat. Whats that?
( a pot)
Riddle, riddle see what may that riddle be, through a rock, through a reel, through an old spinning wheel, through a bag of pepper, through a "millin hopper" through an old horses shin bone, tell me that or leave it alone.
(the wind)
in a puddles
Iddy, oddyo, (with a green heddyo) a pair of yellow feet and a green heddyo. (a drake)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Walshe
- Gender
- Female
