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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0403, Page 144

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    7. Four lily hangers, four cock standers, two hookers two crooners, and a wheel about.
    Ans. a cow
    8. It never was or it never will be, look at your hand and you will plainly see.
    Ans. Any one of your five fingers are not the same length.
    9. Two little children dressed in white went to bed and died that night.
    Ans. two candles
    10. Through a rock, through a re, through new spinning wheel, through a horses's skin bone, riddle me that and let me alone.
    Ans. a moth
    11. I have a little cow, she is tied to the wall, and if I gave her all the world, she would eat it all
    If I gave her water she would die.
    Ans. a fire
    12. Patches upon patches without any stitches
    Ans. a head of cabbage.
    13. Where was Moses when he was nineteen
    Ans. near twenty
    14. If you ate your father and mother what would you be
    Ans. an orphan
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí
    Collector
    Mary Finucane
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Béal Átha Longfoirt, Co. Chiarraí
    Collector
    Michael Keane
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí
    Collector
    Thomas Hanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Daniel Finucane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    40
    Address
    Béal Átha Longfoirt, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Denis Hanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    47
    Address
    Maigh Mheáin, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Thomas Hanrahan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    An Léana Mór, Co. Chiarraí