School: Rathnew
- Location:
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: D. Ó Drisceóil
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- The following riddles were told to me by my father John Mason.
What kind of a stone would you get in a river, a wet one.
Why does a hen pick a pot, because it cannot lick it.
As I went up Ballyduff wall I heard an old man give a very loud call his beard was flesh and his mouth was horn and such an old man has never been born, a cock crowing.
What is the difference between a bottle of castor oil and a telegraph pole, One is hard to get up and the other is hard to get down.
What is it God never sees a King seldom sees and we all see, our own equals. London, Derry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K, That.
What has three feet and cannot walk, a yard. What effect has, the letter a on men it makes them mean.
- Collector
- Sean Mason
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- John Mason
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
