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School: Cluain Tuaiscirt (roll number 1405)

Location:
Clontuskert, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029C, Page 02_054

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  1. Grammar

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    Grammar
    The boy who was young picked blackberries before he ate his dinner.
    The farmer who was wise ploughed the field before he sowed the oats.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Riddles

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    What's in a car and is no good to it
    Noise.
    Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I'll give you a breeches
    A head of cabbage
    As I went out a gate I met three Christina people they were neither men women or children, what were they
    A man woman and child.
    In the corner and forty eyes in it
    A pot of soup
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Loircean
    Gender
    Female