School: Rahan (roll number 9096)
- Location:
- Rahan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 008
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- Riddle me riddle me randy oh a farmer he had seeds to sow the seeds were black and the ground was white riddle me riddle me right?
Ans. Pen ink and paper.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty got a great fall all the Kings horses and all the Kings men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again?
Ans. An egg.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you'd never guess that?
Ans. A pipe
Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more went after that six and seven twice eleven three and two how much is that?
Ans. five
As I went out the slippery gap I picked up some thing of my own it was neither fish flesh feather or bone and it had five fingers of its own ?
Ans. A glove
The man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it?
Ans. A coffin.
- Collector
- Mary Hartnett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mallow, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Hartnett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fiddane North, Co. Cork
