School: Rathnew
- Location:
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: D. Ó Drisceóil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0927, Page 015
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- The following riddles were told to me by my sister Mary Marah.What has a head and cannot get a hat to fit it. Bray head.
If a man got sixpence for walking thirty miles, what would he get for walking one hundred. Sore feet.
What is it, the older it gets the smaller it grows. A Candle.
What goes up a tree with its head down. A nail in a mans boot.
What goes around the wood and never goes into the wood. The rim of a barrell.
Black and white and red (read) all over. A Newspaper.
As I went up Wicklow gap, I saw a little fellow with a red cap. He was roaring and bawling, I asked him what was wrong with him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Marah
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathnew, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mary Marah
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
