School: Drumkerl
- Location:
- Drumkerril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Aoidh
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- (continued from previous page)7. The latest of fruit, the greatest engine, The heaviest of weight and that is my name.
Haw-mill-ton (Hamilton - Inhabitants of Castle Hamilton, Killeshandra.
8. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town,
And earns its master many a pound? A violin.
9. What goes out between the woods and back between the waters?
A woman fetching two pails of water.
10. What bearr [?] and never blossoms? A crook/
11. There was a man in Adam's race, Great Gistle was his name.
His saddle skirt was gilt with gold, and there's three times I've told the name. "Was"
12. Up stairs, down stairs in a cock of straw. Up jumped the live thing and pulled the dead away. A comb.
13. Patch upon patch and no stitches.
Riddle me that and I'll give you my breeches. A cabbage head.
14.A lepper of ditches, a cropper of corn,
A bonnie bred sow, with two leather horns. A hare.
15. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup
All the men in Derry, would not pull it up. A Well.(continues on next page)
