School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)side of the ditch if you go near Hickie Pickie he will eat you? A nettle
Headed like a timble tail like a rat you can guess for ever but you wouldn't guess that? a pipe
As I went upon coddie hill coddie hill was shaking. I put coddie in my pocket afraid the ducks would eat it? A sheaf of oats.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not lift it up? A well.
What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns its master many a pound? A Fiddle
What stands in one end of the wood and eats out of the other end? A Pig
What is it that has neither life nor sense still has four fingures and one thumb? A glove
What says gink gink I cannot drink? a horseshoe.
Little ginny huddle sits in a puddle with a green gown and a white dress? A Rush
What has one eye and cannot see? A Needle
A house full a room full you couldn't lift a spoonful? The smoke
Enough for one two much for two nothing for three takes one to make and two to u keep? A secret
- Collector
- Ben Smyth
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellanacargy, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Walter Higgens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drung, Co. Cavan
