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School: Tulach Ruacháin

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Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mícheál de Bhaldraithe
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    What never was and never will be stretch out your hand and then you'll see? Your five fingers are never even
    As black as ink as white as milk and either milk nor ink it is not, it hops on the road like a marble stone but a marble stone it is not? A magpie.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Patrick Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tulrohaun, Co. Mayo