School: Trentagh (roll number 16331)

Location:
Treantagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Nic Pheadair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 015

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  1. Guesses
    1. I sat on my hunkers and I looked through my willie winker and I saw the dead burying the living.
    I sat down on my heels and I saw a person burying the coals with ashes.
    2. I went into the wood and I got it and I came out and looked for it and I went home without it.
    A jag in my foot.
    3. How can you compare a horse's neck collar to a ship?
    Because both go over the main.
    4. What part of the cow goes in the byre door the first?
    Her breath.
    5. As I went round Derry wall I heard an old man's call. His head was flesh, his mouth was horn, and such a man was never born.
    A rooster.
    6. Spell broken down ditch in three letters?
    Gap.
    7. Spell hard water in three letters?
    Ice.
    8. Spell black water in three letters?
    (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
    Jeanie Neely
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Treantagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Matthew Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    27
    Address
    Treantagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Eliza Jane Neely
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    43
    Address
    Treantagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr James Neely
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    19
    Address
    Treantagh, Co. Donegal