School: Cor na Marbh (roll number 10222)
- Location:
- Cornamarve, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín (Ní) Irbhin
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Riddles (continued)
“How would you compare a shoemaker with a good living person?”
(continued from previous page)two hookers, two crookers, a licker and a swinger?
A cow.
What is short, and the more is taken off the longer it gets?
A grave.
Round and round the hairy hole and in steps bunty?
A man with a moustache eating a potato.
Hairy in and hairy out, hairy into hairy's mouth.
A cat eating a mouse.
Red within and black without and prickled like a bear's snout.
There's not a lady in the land but would take it in her hand.
A blackberry.
America doesn't want it NewHolland wants it still, it is in every mountain.
It's not in any hill. It is in me it's not in you, it's in every man(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Cecil Keyes
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullaghmore, Co. Leitrim