School: Baile Feárnach
- Location:
- Ballyfarnagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Laoghaire
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- 1. I have a little man up in the field when I pull his leg, his nose will bleed. ( a pump)
2. Long legged father, big bodied mother, three little children like one another. (pot and hanger)
3. What it makes all day covers it at night. (fire and ashes)
4. Patch upon patch without any stitches riddle me that and I buy you a breeches. (cabbage)
5. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess many things but you wouldn't guess that. (a pipe)
6.. Middy - noddy round body, thee feet and a wooden hat. (pot)
7. What goes away between two woods and comes home between two waters. (A man fetching water in pails)
8. Ink-ank under the bank, ten drawing four. (woman milking a cow)
9. Nig-nag inside the ditch, nig-nag outside the ditch, if anyone don't touch nig-nag, fig-fag, won't touch you. (a nettle)
10. A house full, a room full, you couldn't(continues on next page)
