School: Kilderry
- Location:
- Keelderry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Áine Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0993, Page 209
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- What bears and never blossoms? - The crooke
What goes round world and leaves a rag in every bush? A mist
Black and White went up the hill blacke came down and Whitie stood still
a hen after laying an egg
What sleeps with his finger in his eye?
The crook
What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
The besom.
What grows in wood sounds through the town
A fiddle
I have a little house it could not hold a mouse
But it as an many windows
As the Lords Mayor's house.
Ans. A thimble
Two pigs on yonder style: the more they got the more they cried
And the less they got the less they cried
Ans mill
I sat down on my "hunkers"
And looked through my peepers, ("peepers")
And saw the dead bury alive.
Ans a fire rakings of a fire(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Éilis Comascí
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumakinneo, Co. Cavan
