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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 294

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    Riddles.
    68 As black as ink, but ink it is not.
    As green as grass, but grass it is not.
    As red as blood, but blood it is not.
    What is it?
    Ans. A blackberry.
    69. I went up the boirin and i came down the boirin, and I took the boirin on my shoulder.
    Ans. A ladder
    (68 & 69 Tomas O'Domhnaill).
    70. A man was going to be hanged, The judge said to him,
    "If you can give out a riddle that no man here can answer, you will be set free. the man went out into a graveyard, and after a few minutes returned again and said:
    As I went out and before I came in.
    I saw the living, living in the dead.
    Five they are, and six they will be.
    Answer my riddle or set me free.
    Ans. He saw a bird's nest in a dead man's skull. There had been six eggs in it, five birds were out of the shells and the sixth was about to come out. (Liam de Burca
    13 1/2)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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