School: Drumbibe (roll number 10765)
- Location:
- Drumbibe, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Tomás Searplaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 263
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- (continued from previous page)In marble hall as white as milk.
Lined with skin as soft as silk.
Within a fountain crystal clear.
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors are here on this stronghold.
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
Ans.: An egg.
Little Jenny Huddle sitting in a puddle with a green cap and a white petticoat.
Ans.: A bunch of rushes.
What is it that grows down. Ans.: a cow's tail.
Up chip-cherry down chip-cherry; all the men in Derry would not climb chip-cherry. Ans.: Smoke.
What goes over the fire, and under the fire and never touches the fire. Ans.: a cake in an oven.
Four stick-standers, four diddle-danders, two puckers, two lugers, a licker and a hanger. Ans.: A cow.
What is it that goes round the house in the day-time, and sleeps in the corner a night. Ans.: The broom.
Why is "smiles" such a long word. Ans.: Because there is a mile between the first and last letters.
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- Collector
- Maureen Brady
- Gender
- Female
