School: Lappen (roll number 2020)
- Location:
- Lappan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Seán Ó Ruanadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0938, Page 173
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- (continued from previous page)down - a nail in a shoe.
14 What is it thats neither inside
nor outside and gives light to
the whole house? A window.
15 Chip, Chip, Cherry, all the men
in Derry couldn't climb chip,
Chip, Cherry - Smoke.
16 Where was Moses when the
candle was put out? - In the
dark.
17 As I went through a field of
wheat I met with something
good to eat. It was neither fish,
flesh, wood nor bone, I kept it
till it was fit to run alone - an
egg hatched into chicken.
18 As I was going over "Corn Hill",
"Corn hill" was creaking, four &
twenty blackbirds tearing up a
nation. - A man harrowing.
19 As black as ink as white as
snow and hops on the road
like hail stones - A magpie.
20 What is it that no person can
see? The back of his own
head.
21 Goosie, Goosie, Gander where
do you wander up stairs and
through doors made of brass,
and(continues on next page)
