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School: Knockerra (C.), Killimer

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Knockerra, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Eibhlín Ní Cholgain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0629, Page 265

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    As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Dennis. He was more afraid of the cock and hen than all the men in Ennis.
    Answer (A worm)
    The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
    Answer (A coffin.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I will give you a pair of breeches?
    A head of cabbage.
    Humpedy, dumpedy sat on a wall, humpedy, dumpedy got a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men could not put humpedy dumpedy together again?
    An egg.
    Half red half white standing on one leg with a cap on her head?
    A mushroom.
    Why is an egg like a horse?
    Because an egg must be broken and a horse must be broken in.
    As white as milk but milk it is'nt. As green as grass but grass it is'nt. As red as rose but rose it is'nt. As black as ink but ink it isnt?
    A black berry from blossom to fruit.
    What part of the cow goes out the gap first?
    Her breath.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Browne
    Gender
    Female