School: Leath-fhearann, Malla (roll number 3548)
- Location:
- Laharan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Barrow
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0364, Page 032
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- (continued from previous page)9. I went up a road, I went down a road, and I carried the road on my back?
Ans. A ladder.
10. As I went to London I saw a great wonder, two pots boiling and no fire under.
Ans. Two wells.
11. As back as ink, as white as milk, and it hops on the ground like hailstone.
Ans. A mackpie.
12. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my uncle David. I cut off his head, and drank his blood and left his body go easy.
Ans. A bottle of whiskey.
13. Riddle me, riddle me randio, my father gave me some seeds to sow. The seeds were black, the ground was white, so riddle me, riddle me, randio.
Ans. A pen, ink and paper.
14. A field of white cows, and a red cow in the middle.
Ans. Your tongue and your teeth.
15. I went out, and before I came in, out of the dead the five did spring. One went out, and six remained.
Ans. A bird after hatching in a skull.
16. What is it the rich man wants, the poor man has, the miser spends, and the sendtrift keeps?(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs O' Hanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Laharan, Co. Cork
