Annotations to James Joyce's Ulysses/Nestor/027

Annotations
027.05-10, 027.18 The cock crew... The fox burying his grandmother under a hollybush. This is a variation on a nonsense riddle cited by Patrick Weston Joyce in his 1910 book English as We Speak it in Ireland, p. 187:


 * Though Solomon solved all the puzzles propounded to him by the Queen of Sheba, I think this would put him to the pin of his collar. I learned it in Limerick two generations ago; and I have got a Wexford version from Mr. MacCall. Observe the delightful inconsequence of riddle and answer.
 * Riddle me, riddle me right:
 * What did I see last night?
 * The wind blew,
 * The cock crew,
 * The bells of heaven
 * Struck eleven.
 * 'Tis time for my poor sowl to go to heaven.
 * Answer: the fox burying his mother under a holly tree.