School: Baile an Londraigh (C.) (roll number 14306)
- Location:
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eibhlís, Bean Uí Shíoda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0512, Page 108
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- (1.) Middy noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat.- A pot.
Hoddy doddy with a big hat and a fat body. - a pot.
(2) Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you could not guess that. A pipe.
(3). Patch upon patch without any stitches - riddle me that and I'll buy you a breeches - A head of cabbage.
(4.) As I went out a slippery gap I met my Uncle Davy - A bone in his throat so I cut off his head and left his body naked. A head of cabbage.
(5.) Riddle me riddle me randy o - my father gave me seeds to sow, the ground was white the seeds were black - you're a good scholar if you riddle me that - A newspaper.
(6) Tis black tis white tis red (read) all over. - A newspaper.
(7) Tis in tis out tis like a trout tis slippery wet and greasy - Your tongue.
(8.) There was a little house and a mouse would not fit in it and all the men in town could not count all the windows in it. - A thimble.
(9.) Why does a miller wear a white hat. To cover his head.
(10.) As round as a marble as deep as a cup and all the men in Ireland couldn't take it up. The moon in a well.(continues on next page)
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