School: Long an Inbhair
- Location:
- Lurgananure, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Géibhdigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 202
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- Useful, Useless, ornamental, often bought, but never lent, Those who buy it never use it, those who use it never refuse it. a coffin
What goes round and round the house? but sleeps in the corner at night. a brush
What goes from house to house? but stays at no house. a path
What goes up the stairs with their heads down? the nails in a mans boot
Riddle me Riddle me ree, has an eye, but cannot see. a needle
Three feet sitting, four standing, a hand in the hole, and the tail wagging. a dog eating out of a pot.
A pot of porridge hot, a pot of porridge cold, a pot of porridge in a pot nine days old, your a scholar as you suppose to be, spell me that without a P. that
Twenty sheep would out on yonder gap, twenty more followed that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three, and two, how much is that. five
I have a little sister called Pee Boo Peep she would go over the sea were it ever so deep. the moon
Long man legless, came to the door footless, keep in your ducks, I am not afraid of your dogs. a frog
As I sat on my hunkers, I looked through my winkers, I saw the dead burrying the live. the ashes being put over the live coals
Hard working father, lazy old mother, twelve little children all of the same colour. a clock.
What sleeps with its finger in the it's eye? a clock.
What is always behind the time? The back of a clock(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Denning
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
