School: Dromlachan

Location:
Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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  1. Riddles
    Collected from children attending Drumloughan School, and written in this book 18.11.1937
    1) As I was going through yonder gap,
    i met my uncle Savey
    I cut off his head and sucked his blood,
    and left him lying easy.
    Ans.: A Blackberry
    2) Up chip chop cherry, down chip chop cherry;
    All the men in Derry wouldn't climb Chip Chop Cherry.
    Ans.: Smoke
    3) What goes over the water, and under the water, and never touches the water.
    Ans.: An egg in a duck.
    4) What goes up the ladder with its head down.
    Ans.: A nail in a man's shoe.
    5) I have a little house, and it wouldn't hold a mouse;
    And there's more windows in it than the Lord Mayor's house.
    Ans.: a thimble.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Children attending Drumloughan School