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School: Fahan (roll number 14479)

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Fahan, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 287

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    “Who sat under a dock leaf and was eaten by a cow? Tom Thumb.”

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    Spell black water in three letters? I N K.
    What is hot and cold at the same time? Mustard.
    What tongue hurts but never speaks? A Shoe tongue
    A little lilybalage in a cage. All the little lilybalage's children died with age.
    A tree inside a fencing.
    Four and twenty wee things all runnings naked. The foremost is the hindmost and the hindmost is the foremost.
    Hailstones.
    I met a bull and he was black. He stuck and I flung. Jag.
    Feety footy, feety footy. Three feety footies and a wooden bonnet.
    Pot with a wooden lid.
    Born before his mother, died before his father, was buried in the bowels of his
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    George Gillighan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr G. Gillighan
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Roosky, Co. Donegal