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

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Tobercurry, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Nioclás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 415

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    5. There were two twin brothers
    Born in March
    And their birthday was in September.
    How is that?
    (They were born in the month of September in a town called March.)
    6. Two twin brothers
    Were born in Dublin
    One was twenty
    And the other twenty two (too)
    One married his mother
    And the other died (dyed) a bachelor
    And yet he was a married man?
    (Both were twenty years. One became a priest and married his widowed mother to another man. The other was a hairdresser and dyed a bachelor's hair.)
    7. A leaper of ditches
    A tripper of thorns
    A brown little cow
    With a pair of leather horns.
    (A Hare.)
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Davey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tobercurry, Co. Sligo