School: Lecks

Location:
Lecks, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
C. Ní Dhiarmuida
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  1. Riddles
    Once in a month, twice in a moment and never in a thousand year?
    Letter M
    Motherless, fatherless, born without in, came to the world and ran away again.
    Hailstones
    Get a cake of bread and divide it into four quarters eat three of them what time is it.
    A quarter to ate.
    What makes a pair of shoes?
    Two
    What is everybody doing at the same time?
    Growing old
    There was a thing just four weeks old, and Adam was no more, before that thing was five weeks old Adam was fore score
    The moon
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Coffey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cornaleen, Co. Cavan