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Title: Document - Beverley Prentice, Addressed to Dorothy Howard, Transcription of a Riddle, 1954-1955
Description: Game types: riddle Alternative types: jokes, language play Handwritten transcriptions of a riddle composed for Dr Dorothy Howard by Beverley Prentice, a student at East Camberwell Girls Secondary School, in 1954-1955. The riddle comprises the following: 'If there was a rope ladder hanging from a boat and there [were] six rungs, each one foot apart and the tide rose four feet. How many rungs were showing above the water? Answer: All six of them, because the boat rose with the tide.' One of a collection of letters describing a children's game written to children's Folklorist Dorothy Howard between 1954 and 1955. Dr. Howard came to Australia in 1954-55 as an American Fulbright scholar to study Australian children's folklore. She travelled across Australia for 10 months collecting children's playground rhymes, games, play artefacts, etc. This letter, together with the other original fieldwork collected by Dr. Howard during this period, is preserved in the Dorothy Howard Collection manuscript files, part of the Australian Children's Folklore Collection (ACFC), Archive Series 3. The ACFC is an extensive collection documenting children's folklore and related research.
Physical description: Handwritten annotation in blue ink on lined paper. Text written on one side of page.
Control: HT 41388

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