School: Deravoy (roll number 373)
- Location:
- Derryveagh, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Treanor
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- (continued from previous page)26. Chip, chip cherry all the men in Derry couldnt climb chip chip cherry.
The smoke.27. Wooly without and wooly within I lifted my leg and put in.
A stocking28. Black and white and read all over.
A newspaper.29. A houseful a roomful and you couldnt catch a spoonful.
The smoke.30. What is it that is as green as grass and not grass and as white as milk and not milk. It has a beard on it like a goat and its tail stands up
An onion.31 What goes through the water and the two ends of it down.
Bag on a horses back.32. As I went over yonder hill I saw three pots boiling and no fire under.
Three spring wells.33. As I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and I saw the dead burying the live.
Raking the fire.34. What part goes up the hill first.
Her rout.35. As I was going out the road I met(continues on next page)
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- E. Treanor
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
