School: Rooskey (roll number 4800)
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Luke Caslin
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1) As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Derry would not lift it up. Answer- A well.
2)What has no legs and runs very fast. Answer- A tap.
3) As I was going up the road I met three people coming down they were neither men, women, nor children what were they? Answer- A man, a woman and a child.
4) What goes up the ladder with their heads down. Answer- nail's in a man's boots.
5) How many potatoes would it take to make brusheen. Answer- One if it was big enough.
6) Middy noddy round body three feet and a wooden hat. Answer- A pot.
7) Brought over to the table cut and never eaten. Answer- A pack of cards.
8)Ass, cart, colar and hams spell all in three letters. Answer- all
9) Leaper of ditches cliper of thorns two black eyes and a pair of long horns. Answer- A goat.Joe Reynolds, Ruskey, Co. Roscommon. 1 Dec. '37
- Collector
- Joe Reynolds
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Roscommon
