A riddle from Tim Robinson's Connemara: Listening to the Wind, a book I've been reading slowly, lingeringly:
Téann sé isteach ar ghuaillí daoine agus tagann sé amach ina shnáithín síoda – ‘It comes in on people’s shoulders and it goes out as a thread of silk.’
Answer in the comments stream.
Turf.
ReplyDeletesnot.
ReplyDeleteSNOT comes in on people's shoulders?
ReplyDeleteJohn, where have you been hanging out
In some long, hankyless queue
where everyone behind you
has the flu?