School: Leitir
- Location:
- Templecrone, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Ó hEachaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1062, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)An umbrealla.
What meat is never cheap? :- Deer (Dear)
It is as green as grass but grass it is not, it is as red as blood but blood it is not, It is as black as ink but ink it is not. :- A blackberry.
What goes round the wood but never goes into the wood? :- The bark of a tree.
Patch upon patch with out any (slich) stitches riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches :- Cabbage.
Twenty sheep went through a gate, twenty more along with that, six, seven, ten, eleven, two and three, how much is that? Five.
As I went up the "sliddery" slap, I met Mary Ann in a red cap; iron heels and timmery toes and thats the way to scare the crows? A gun.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry could not lift it up :- a well.
Round the house, and round the house and whistles in the key hone hole :- Wind.
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