School: Deravoy (roll number 373)
- Location:
- Derryveagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Treanor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 054
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- (continued from previous page)in her cap winking. A lamp.
17. What goes round the house and peeps in on every hole. The Sun.
18. What goes through the gap and through the gap and leaves a bit of its tail in the trap. A needle and thread.
19. What goes round the house and lies in the corner at night. The twig.
20. As I was running a thing I found I hated to get it I looked around for it. If I could get I'd throw it away and when I couldn't get it I had to keep it all day. A thorn.
21. Whats goes up the road and lifts the road on its back. A step ladder.
22. Little Miss Neddy cut with a white petticoat and a red nose the longer she stands the shorter she grows. A candle.
23. How many cows tails would reach the sky. One if it was long enough.
24. Four sticks standing, four diddle danders Two lookers two crookers. A licker and a switcher. A cow.
25. Humpty, dumpty up the wall. Humpty dumpty got a fall. Ten score men and ten score more couldnt put humpty dumpty as it was before. The smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- E. Treanor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
