School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

Location:
Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Gobnait de Búit
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    What is neither inside the house nor outside but yet is on the house?
    Windows.
    What is a herring worth when it is half eaten worth turning.
    The leaper of ditches, the clipper of thorns, the little bracked cow with the leather horns.
    a hare.
    What has a mouth and no head?
    A river.
    What lights and never burns.
    a bird
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. I ran and I got it,
    I sat down and I looked for it,
    When I couldn't get it, I brought it with me.
    A thorn in a person's foot.
    Formed long ago yet made today,
    Employed while others sleep,
    What few would like to give away,
    Yet no one would like to keep.
    A bed
    A little house full of meat, but
    neither door nor window would let me in and eat?
    An egg
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Walter O' Malley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Gault
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Skreeny, Co. Leitrim