School: Cronaghbois (roll number 2658)
- Location:
- Crannogeboy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Beirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1048, Page 360
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- (continued from previous page)(33) Round the house & round the house. And drags her puddings after her.) Hen & clutch.
(34) It has teeth & can't eat. A comb.
(35) Long legs, crooked thighs. Wee head & no eyes.) Tongs.
(36) Hairy all over and rough in the skin. Two things wagging and a thing going in.) Pig eating potatoes.
(37) Why does a cow look over a knowe? Can't see through.
(38) Chip, chip, cherry, all the men in Derry. Couldn't climb up chip chip cherry.) Smoke.
(40) Wee Johnny neddy with 2 heads and i body.) Pot hooks.
(41) Black & white went up the hill. Black came down but white stayed still. Ans, Hen laying egg in hill.
(42) The man that made it never wore it. And the man that wore it never saw it.) Coffin.
(43) The more you take out of it the bigger it gets. A hole.
(44) I washed my hand in water that was never rained or run. I dried it in a towel that was never woven or spun.) Washed in dew. Dried in sun.
(45) It's cut in the wood and sounds in the town. And earns its master many a pound. Ans, Fiddle.(continues on next page)
