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School: Ceathrú (Carton) (roll number 15339)

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Cartron, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 329

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  1. Riddles (continued)

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    A = A Priest
    R(14) How would you compare a cobbler to a priest
    A = Both mind soles (souls).
    R(15) How is a cobbler like a king.
    A = Both wear his nose above his chin
    R(16) Says the child to the father how does it come, that your my father and I'm not your son
    A = She was his daughter.
    R(17) I went to the wood for "brasna" I brought back neither ash oak or elm or any sort of "brasna" but I had brasna home with me.
    A = "Brasna" was the dogs name.
    R(18) What sleep's with its finger in its eye.
    A = A Crook.
    R(19) What's most like a horses shoe
    A = A mare's shoe.
    R(20) There is a table in my father's garden, it is neither ash, oak, elm, or yew or anything else that ever grew. What is it
    A = A sheet of ice.
    R(21) There is a deer on yonder hill its there he stands alone he is neither
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Taylor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Corracramph North, Co. Leitrim