School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 261
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- (continued from previous page)As I was going up a steeple I met three people, they were not men, women, or children and still they were people.
Three shadows.
Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will buy you a pair of breeches.
A head of cabbage.
One morning as I looked out the window I saw the dead carrying away the living
The dead carrying away the people
Ink, Ank, under bank ten drawing four.
Milking a cow.
It opens like a hall door, it closes like a trap, if you were ever thinking you could not think of that.
A cupboard.
Little brown cow with two leather horns, jumps over ditches and threads upon thorns.
The hare.
Little miss mouse with a red nose; the longer she lives the smaller she grows.
A candle
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the water in the sea could not fill it up.
A strainer
Little Jenny in the wall, if you give her water(continues on next page)
