School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)
- Location:
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Ruairc
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- (continued from previous page)a great wonder, four and twenty wild cats tearing the ground asunder?
A brake. Long legs, crooked thighs, a big head and no eyes? A thongs. Black and white and read all over? Ireland's Own. what is it that flies high, flies low, it has no feet and yet it wears shoes? Dust. Hoddy Doddy with a round black body and a big flat hat what's that? A pot. What is it that's over the head and under the hat? Hair on your head. Out of a roomful, you cannot take a spoonful? Smoke.
Its neither inside the house nor outside the house but still it's in the house? A window.
Chip chop cherry all the men in Derry would not climb chip chop cherry.
Smoke.
Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
A cake in an oven.
What tongue often hurts you but never speaks a word? The tongue of your shoe. What gets wet with drying? A towel.
As I went out the gap I met a little(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lil Ní Corcoráin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
