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School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 416

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    What is it that is white first, then black, and then read all over.
    A newspaper
    As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like a hailstone.
    A magpie
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    I have a wee cow, with her back to the wall, and she would eat all the heather from here to Donegal.
    A fire
    What is cut in the wood and sounds in the town and earns for it's master many a half crown.
    A fiddle
    I have a wee goose, she cost a great price, she goes far and near. She has need to be nice. She has feet in her body yet walks upon none, she is far from her lodging and seldom at home.
    A ship
    How could you compare a watch to a feather bed.
    Each has a tick.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Beatty
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Beatty
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kiltyclogher, Co. Leitrim