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School: Gallen

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Gallen, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 125

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    (1) How would you make a slow horse fast? By giving him no food.
    (2) What has a head, four legs, and a foot and cannot walk? A bed.
    (3) Black I am and much admired,
    Men and horses I have tired
    Gold and silver is my cost,
    But the dung-hill is my post at last.
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    (4) Old mother Witchet she has but one eye,
    She has a long tail which she lets fly,
    Every time she goes out in the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Dolan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs P. Dolan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    43
    Address
    Noggusboy, Co. Offaly