School: Druim Beag (roll number 9035)
- Location:
- Drumbeg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sinéad Bean de Faoite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1105, Page 170
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- (continued from previous page)XVI
The land was white, the sea was black.
It will take a good scholar to riddle me that.
Writing.XVII
Purple, yellow, red and green
The king cannot reach it nor the Queen
The Rainbow.XVIII
In marble walls as white as milk
Lined with a skin as soft as silk.
Within a fountain crystal clear.
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors there are to this stronghold
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
An egg.XXX
What time is it when a man has thirteen patches on his trousers?
Time to get a new pair.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Hepburn
- Gender
- Female
