School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Baile Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 220
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“Long ago, the old people delighted in story telling and in giving out riddles.”
Long ago, the old people delighted in story telling and in giving out riddles. Here are some of them.
Once when a man was out hunting, he saw a hare some distance away and he set his hound after it. There happened to be on the hedge a churn, what did the hare do when it saw them - It passed it by.
Two black men and one white man were out motoring, the two black men ate the white man. - what was the number of the car [?].
As round as a ring, as flat as as a pan, the half of a woman, the whole of a man. (A penny)
Long legs, short things, little head and no eyes - a tongs.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Filoména Ní Dhulchonta
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile Uí Lachnáin, Co. Thiobraid Árann