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School: Bohermeen (roll number 3115)

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Bohermeen, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Aindrias Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 005

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    1. As I walked out as I walked in from the dead the live did spring. Six did sit the seventh did fly. Riddle me that and I'm willin' to die.
    2. Better than God worse than the devil, the dead hates it and if the live ate it it would kill them!
    Nothing.
    3. As round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the men in Derry wouldn't pull it up.
    A Well.
    4. In a field there is a well, in the well there is a cup, in the cup there is a sup that every-one must take.
    Death.
    5. Opens like a barren door shuts like a trap, there's many a thing you would think of and you wouldn't think of that.
    An Umbrella.
    6. I went out into a field of wheat. I met something that I could eat; it wasn't either
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grange, Co. Meath
    Informant
    John Mooney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Grange, Co. Meath