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School: Eslin (roll number 10026)

Location:
Eslinbridge, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Pilib Mac Aonghusa
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    I have a little cow, and she sleeps by the wall, and she'd eat all the turf from here to Donegal.
    Ans = a fire.
    A leap of the ditches, a wrap of the thorns, a little brown cow with a pain of leather horns.
    Ans = a hare
    What is it, there is a calf doing it, and everything is doing it at the same time.
    Ans = getting older.
    Why does De Valera think out of a cup.
    Ans = because all the mugs
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr William Mc Guinness
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    90
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Drumboy, Co. Leitrim