School: Drom na Gráinsighe (roll number 13280)

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   Q. One moonlight night as I looked out on the window I heard the ticker tacker scraping at the door. I saw the picker packer at the "walls of willie wacker". I sent out my ticker tacker to hunt the picker packer from willie wackers walls?
   A. I looked on the window one moonlight night and the dog was scraping the door. I saw the bill at the hayrick and I sent out the dog to hunt him away.
   Q. Two legs sat on three legs with one leg in his lap, four legs came in and snapped one leg, two legs flung three legs at four legs to make him bring back one leg?
   A. A man sat on a three-legged stool with a leg of mutton in his lap. A dog came in and snapped the mutton. The man flung the stool at the dog to make him bring it back.
   Q. Without skin or bone and has four fingers and a thumb? A. A glove.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Lavin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Michael Lavin

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumnagranshy, Co. Sligo