School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)

Location:
Crecora, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0526, Page 128

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  1. It opens like a window
    It closes like a trap
    You'd want to think of 40 things
    Before you'd think of that
    A A ladys corset
    It was full of food
    No doors no windows
    So no one could get in to eat it
    A An egg
    A man without eyes, saw plums on a tree
    He ate no plums, and he left no plums on the tree
    A. A man with 1 eye saw 2 plums in a tree. He ate 1 plum and left one plum on the tree.
    Tis red tis
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        1. riddles (~7,209)
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