School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)
- Location:
- Killinure, Co. Laois
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 045
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A leaper of ditches. a cropper of corn,
A tight little fellow with two leather horns? A hare.
Riddle me, riddle me rye, one going in and two passing by?
A man sewing a boot.
Up chip cherry and down chip cherry not a man in Derry can climb chip cherry. Smoke.
The gun she split fire, it made a great smoke and it gave my poor shoulders a devil of a stroke. A shot. - What is the smallest thing a girl could stand in? Her shoe.
When is a door nice to eat? When it is Jambed.(continues on next page)
