School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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Q. It's grassy and green and it is plain to be seen, it is fir for a Lord or a lady?
A. A grave.
Q. It's as white as the snow and it's not the snow, it's as green as the grass and it's not the grass, it's as red as a rose and it's not a rose, it's as black and soot and it's not soot?
A. Black-berry.
Q. My father gave me a seed to sow, the seed was black and he ground was white, riddle me, riddle me, and I'll give you a pipe?
A. A letter.
Q. I have a horse with a wooden throat, as fast as he gallops he swallows he rope?
A. Spinning-wheel.
Q. Hairy all over, rough in the skin, two things wagging and one going in?
A. A pig carting.
Q. A long legged father, a big belly mother, three little brothers as small as each other?
A. A pot.
Q. The clipper of ditches, the cutter of corn my brown cow with a pair of leather hors?
A. A Hare.
Q. The man that made it for sale, the man that bought it never wore it, the man that wore it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr Peter Grealis
- Gender
- Male
