School: Castleterra
- Location:
- Castleterra, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Ciosóig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0973, Page 092
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- 1) In came two legs, sat on three legs with one leg on hi slap in came four legs snapped up one leg, out with three legs after four legs & made four legs leave one back.
Ans. A dog stealing a leg of ham from a butcher seated on a three legged stool. 2) What has two ears &b three legs> A pot.3) In my father's garden there is a little plot all full of ladies & then at a trot with their bows on their bonnets & their little blue hats, & if you are scholar riddle me that. Ans. A field of flax in bloom. 4) Riddle riddle see such a riddle couldn't be through a rock through a see [?] through an old spinning wheel through a miller's supper through a bag of pepper through a horse shins bone, riddle me that or let it alone . Ans. a moth5) The cat has what everything has(continues on next page)
