School: Rooskey
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Martin J. Casey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 244
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- Eight arms but no hands, a wooden leg but cannot stand, Its often wet but cannot feel has no coat but shod with steel, has a dress of silk with a belt tied round the middle who can guess the silly riddle?
An umbrella.
Its the length of ten men and the strength of ten men and ten men couldn't straighten it up?
A rope.
What's as croocked as the river.
Its banks.
I ran and I got it, I sat down and I searched but when I could not get it I had to come with it?
A thorn in your foot?
I have an old cow that lies against the wall, and she would eat as much fodder from here to Donegal?
A fire.
I bought sixteen yards of turf at a shilling a yard what did it come to?
Ashes.
Out of a roomful I can't take a spoonful?
Smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Tonra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Bridget Tonra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
