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School: Tón Ruadh (roll number 12809)

Location:
Tonroe, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Giobaláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 20

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    A little white and round house
    And it's full of meat
    It has no doors nor windows
    To let me in to eat.
    Ans: An egg
    One half dead
    The other half alive and a tail wagging
    Ans: A dog with his head in a pot
    As I went up the boreen
    I met my Aunty Noreen
    He had timber heels and iron toes
    Upon my word she'd frighten the crows
    Ans: A shotgun
    Ten fiddle men
    Fiddle and fiddledom
    Nine raggedy men
    Raggedy and torn
    Eight fat oxes tied by the horns
    Seven barns full of corn
    Six grey mares
    Well shaved, shod and shorn.
    No answer
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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    English