School: Cor na Marbh (roll number 10222)
- Location:
- Cornamarve, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín (Ní) Irbhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0203, Page 036
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Riddles (continued)
“What can be filled twice.”
(continued from previous page)danks Ken drawing four
I milking a cow.
As I was going out in a gutter gap I met my uncle Davie. I cut his throat and sucked his blood and left him lying easy.
A bottle of whiskey.
What goes through the wood and through the wood with its head down.
A nail in a mans shoe.
As (round) as an apple as round as a ball it climbs the church steeple spire and all.
The sun.
What is in every corner of the house.
The sun.
I sat on my hunkers I looked though my winkers. I saw the dead burying the live.
Raking a fire.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- W.J. Mason
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnacorkoge, Co. Leitrim