School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 252
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- (continued from previous page)hanging on a crook.108. A, b and an o and an x in the middle, a t and a y, come tell me this riddle?
Boxty.109. What member of Parliament wears the largest hat?
The one who has the biggest head.110 As I looked over the garden wall, I saw a wee man, and he let a loud call, his head was flesh, and his mouth was horn and such a wee man never was born?
A rooster11. Down in the meadow, there is a table, and it is neither ash, oak or yew, nor any wood never grew it?
A table of ice.112. I have a nest of wee things, rough and racked, yellow backed, pretty little wee things?
A bee's nest.113. What is a herring worth when half eaten
It is worth turning over.114. Forty sheep went through a gap, forty more followed that, six seven, ten eleven, three and two how much is that?
Five115. Two o o, two n n, and L and a d put that together and tell it to me?
London.116. Luke has it before, and Paul has it behind and John Kelly has it twice in the one(continues on next page)
