School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Corracloona, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 301
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- General collection from childrens copybooks.
In marble hall as white as milk
Lined with skin as soft as silk,
Within a crystal fountain clear,
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors are there to this stronghold
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Answer: An egg.Old Mother Twitch has but one eye,
And a long tail which she lets fly,
And every time she goes through yon thorny gap,
She always leaves a tail behind.
Answer: A needle and thread.Chip-chip cherry, all the men in Derry could not climb chip-chip cherry
Answer: SmokeSpell broken down ditches in three letters
Ans: G-A-P.Londonderry, Cork and Kerry, spell me that without a K.
Ans: T-H-A-T.What goes through the water and never touches the water:
Ans: An egg in a duck.(continues on next page)
