School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 015
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- (continued from previous page)46 As I walked out, as I walked in.
It's from the dead the live did spring,
The sixth sat and the seventh did fly.
Riddle me that and I'm willing to die.
- A robin with her nest in a dead man's skull.47 In a garden was laden the prettiest maiden
That ever was seen in the morning.
She became a wife the first day of her life
And she died before she was born
- Eve.48 Two dead men fighting; two blind men looking on; two cripples running for the priest ("police" is also said); and two dummies shouting, "Hurry on!"
- A lie.49 As I went up Tara hill I met a Tara lass; she had tar on her petticoats and tar on her back.
- A sheep.50 Yellow amber in the wood and spring water all round it?
- Butter in a dish.51 Why is a pig in a parlour like a house on fire?
- The quicker he is put out the better.52 Everything has what the kettle has; and what has the kettle?
- A name.(continues on next page)
