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   (1) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy He had iron nose and timber toes and upon my word he could frighten the crows?
   A. A gun.

   (2) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and left his body aisy?
   A. A head of cabbage.

   (3) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy, I cut off his head and drank his blood and left his body aisy?
   A. A bottle of stout.

   (4) Q. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. He had a bundle of rods and no one could count them but God.
   A. The hairs on a boy's head.

   (5) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. I put him into my pocket before the crows'd ate him.
   A. A Pratie.

   (6) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy; he began to pinch me and I began to bate him. I threw him out to the ducks to ate him.
   A. A hot pratie or A Frog.

   (7) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met a man with a red cap. He had a stone in his stomach and a stick in his back.
   A. A Haw.

   (8) Q. As I went up Derry wall, I heard a dead man's call. Skinny mouth and beak of horn, such a creature was never born.
   A. A cock crowing.

   (9) Q. As I went out, I soon came in: cut from the dead the live did spring. No tree did shake, no leaf did fall, and that's my riddle among ye all.
   A. A bird coming out of a dead man's skull on a tree.

   (10) Q. As I went out a slippery gap, I met a man. He took off his hat and drew on his gloves. What was his name?
   A. Andrew.

   (11) Q. As I went up a slippery gap, I met my Uncle Davy. He had a red hue and part of him glue and he was taking the world aisy.
   Ans. A ball.

   

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