School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 395
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A girl milking a cow.
- 7.
Flour from Ireland, fruit from Spain,
Met together in a shower of rain,
Put in a bag, tied with a string,
Riddle me that and I'll give you a ring.
Answer. A Barnbrack.
8.
Riddle me riddle me randy
My father's legs are bandy,
And if he heard me saying that,
He'd put me in the crandy.
Answer: A Frog.
9.
As I went up to Dublin, I saw a small block,
Four and twenty carpenters were working at that,
Some with blue bonnets and some with straw hats,
And if you were a scholar, you'd riddle me that.
Answer: Flies on a cowdung - Collector
- Willie Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Forgney, Co. Longford
