School: Garrán (B.) (roll number 11274)
- Location:
- Garrane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 280
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- What goes up when the rain comes down? An umbrella. What has teeth but no eyes? A comb. What has an eye but cannot see? A Needle. Black and white and read all over? The star. Opens like a barn door shuts like a trap you think of many things before you think of that? A scissors. Riddle a riddle a farmers fiddle dead in the middle and life ion the two ends? A plough. Riddle me Riddle Randy O My father gave me seeds to sew. The seeds were black and the ground was white. Riddleme Riddleme Randy O? A currant cake. As I went up a slippery gap I met my Auntie Joan she had timber toes and iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows; A gun? Opens like a barn door shuts like a trap, you think of many things before you think of that? A scissors. A grey little creature with two leather horns that jumps over ditches and hops over thorns' A rabbit. As round as a marble(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Caverly
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Caverly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Cooranuller, Co. Cork
