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School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)

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Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
Teacher:
E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 368

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    Collection of Riddles
    8. 7. 38
    In Amsterdam it is common. In Germany in is still. It is always in a mountain, but never in a hill. It is in all sorts of timber, but never in a tree, it is seldom in a person but still it in me.
    The letter 'm'.
    It grew in the wood, it sounds in the town, and it earns many a penny and pound.
    A fiddle,
    It is the beginning of Eternity, the end of time and place. The beginning of every end and the end of every race.
    The letter 'e'.
    As black as ink, as white as snow and it hops on the road like hailstone.
    A magpie.
    Luke had it before, Paul had it behind, and John Kelleher had it twice in one spot.
    The letter 'l'.
    As I went to London I saw a great wonder, too pots boiling and not fire under.
    "Lime"
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mamie Mc Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Urraghilbeg, Co. Cork