School: An Corr Dubh (roll number 14339)
- Location:
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Giolla'n Átha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0226, Page 574
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- (continued from previous page)a well.
Riddle mari mare my father sent me seed to sow the seed was black and the ground was white riddle that and I will give you a pipe.
Writing a letter.
What sleeps at night under what it dirties in the day.
The fire.
What goes up a ladder with its head down
A nail in a mans shoe.
Why does a dog wag his tail
Because his tail cannot wag him.
Why does a hen pick a pot
Because she cannot lick it.
There is a table in my father's garden, it is neither ash oak nor yew or any timber that ever grew
A flake of ice.
The King of Morocco sent to his sister a bottomless vessel to hold flesh and blood
A ring.
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will give you a pair of britches.
A cabbage head
Two black men and one white man went out together in a car the two black men ate(continues on next page)
