School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)15 Thin at the top thick in the middle and hairy at the bottom (a cow's horn).
- 16 The more you take out of it the longer it gets(A grave)
17 A barn full, a byre full and you cold not catch a spoonful(Smoke)
18 Down in the meadow I have a table; it is neither ash nor oak, yew nor anything that ever grew(Ice)
19 Wee hidie, hoddy with a round black body and nothing but a spitting gob(Kettle)
20 As I was going over the hill of honey, I met a wee woman scratching cunny: Cunny she said and she hit it a cuff, and ll the old hair came dundering off(A thistle, with a white blossom)
21 A wee lazy woman and a hard working man, twelve little children and them as black as the pan(black face) - Collector
- Kathleen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- 22 Patch when patch without any stitches: riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches (a kale head)
23 What's full and holds more? (a pot of potatoes when you put water in)
24 Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat(continues on next page)
