School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 348
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- As I went through a guttery gap
I met a man with a little red cap
A stone in his body and a stick in his throat
Riddle me that and I will give you a goat
A cherry
What is black and white and read all over
A news paper
A leaper of ditches
A clipper of thorns
A little brown cow
With two leather horns
A Rabbit
What was the first bet made
The alphabet
Tink tank under a bank ten drawing four
Milking a cow
As round as an apple
As flat as a pan
The whole of a woman and the head of a man
An English penny
Why is a so much like 12 noon
because it is in the middle of day
As I was going to fair of St Dives
I met seven men with their seven wifes(continues on next page)
