School: Gortnessy (roll number 7235)

Location:
Gortinessy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Nic Sheáin
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  1. Riddle: I have a wee horse with an iron throat, and the faster he gallops he swallows the rope.
    Answer: An old woman spinning.
    R: Chip, chip cherry all the men in Derry couldn’t climb the chip, chip Cherry.
    A: The smoke.
    R: As white as milk and milk it isn’t, as green as grass and grass it isn’t, as red as blood and blood it isn’t, as black as ink and ink it isn’t.
    A: A Blackberry.
    R: You take it from your father, you share it with your mother, your sisters and your brothers, when asked for it you give it, you give it, yet you keep it.
    A: Your Surname.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. Riddle: Black as a crow and white as snow and hops on the road like hailstones?
    Answer: A Magpie
    R: What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood?
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ernest Crawford
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cullion, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Miss P. Moore
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    16
    Address
    Carn, Co. Donegal