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School: Clochar Muire, Tobar an Choire (roll number 12166)

Location:
Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 414

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    Riddles
    1) Up chip cherry,
    Down chip cherry,
    All the men in Derry
    Wouldn't climb chip cherry.
    (Smoke.)
    2) In a garden was laid
    A beautiful maid
    She was as fair as the April morn
    The first day of her life
    She became a wife
    And she died before she was born.
    (Eve)
    3) He went between two woods
    And came home between two waters.
    (A man carrying two wooden pails of water)
    4) What is it which goes round the wood
    And never enters the wood?
    (The bark.)
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Davey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tobercurry, Co. Sligo