School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0183, Page 482
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An S and an L an I in the middle, a G and an O and spell me the riddle
Sligo.
From Heaven I fell, from earth I began, no lady alive can show me such skin, I'm as bright as an Angel, as light as a feather both heavy and dark when you squeeze me together.
Snow.
A leaper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, and off he goes with his two leather horns.
A hare.
Ink ank under the bank, ten drawing four.
A woman milking a cow.
What is it that goes with the train, the train can't go without and that's of no use to the train.
The noise.(continues on next page)
