School: Eanach Dubh (B.) (roll number 13656)
- Location:
- Annaduff, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Thomas Morahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0214, Page 146
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- (continued from previous page)A To go to the other side.
Q As round as an apple as plump as a ball cut in the middle and hair round it all?
A. Your eye.
Q. The half of a moon the whole of a hill a little town in Leitrim and it is there still?
A. Mohill
Q Through the wood and through the wood and leaves a rag on every bush?
A "A Fog".
Q. What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
A. "A grave"
Q. Riddle, riddle, ruddle, sitting in a puddle, green jacket and white petticoat?
A. "A rush.
Q. Riddle, riddle re, what shall it be, a sally pickers nest in an old crab tree?
A. "a nest of fleas in a dog's tail.
Q. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you would not guess that?
A. A pipe(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Peter Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corduff, Co. Leitrim
