School: Termonfeckin

Location:
Termonfeckin, Co. Louth
Teacher:
T. Ó Corcoráin
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    sitting in each corner. A cat facing each cat. A cat sitting on each cat's tail. How may cats were there.
    Answer four cats.
    37 It came into the world in a stable grew in the wood and the Blacksmith made it.
    Answers a bellows.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 38. Q What goes round the yard and round the yard and forty eyes after it.
    A. A hen with twenty chickens
    39. Q What goes round the wood and goes into it.
    A The bark of a tree.
    40. Q Two black men and one white man were in a car one day. The two black men ate the White man. They took the number of the car. What number did they put on?
    A. 281.
    41. Q Twenty four white horses on a red hill here they go there they go then stand still.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    S. Fleming
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balfeddock, Co. Louth
    Informant
    Katey Quail
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Balfeddock, Co. Louth