School: Tobar (C.)

Location:
Tober, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Bean Uí Thóirdhealbhaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 116

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    light went out
    In the dark
    The walls outside are as white milk the skin inside is soft as silk, neither door nor window I behold till I got in and robbed the gold
    An egg
    What goes up a ladder with its head down.
    Nails in a man's boot.
    Transubstantiation is a very big word and if you don't know how to spell it you are a very big dunce.
    It.
    I walked up a path, I walked down a path and I carried the path on my back.
    A ladder
    It goes from house to house and is out at night. A path.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Connor
    Gender
    Female