School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0260, Page 107
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- 1. "As black as ink, as white as paper
It hops on the road like a marble stone
And a marble stone it isn't." ( a magpie).
2. "As I looked out the window I saw 36 devileens rooting up the ground ".
(a wooden harrow).
3. Patch upon patch without any stitches
Riddle me that and I'll buy you a breeches
(a head of cabbage).
4. Four stick standers, two Mary Anders
Two lookers, two puckers
And a wheel about (a goat).
5. Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
(a cake of bread in the oven)
6. As round as an apple; as plump as a ball;
Can climb the church avenue, over steeple and all
(the sun).
7. Hairy in and hairy out: And hairy into hairy's mouth.
(a foot going into a sock)
8. Spell dry grass in three letters. (hay).
9. Four stick standers, four mary anders,
Two bow benders, two glass eyes and a long tailed whip.
(a cow).
10. Hard working father, lazy old mother
Twelve little children all the one colour (a clock).
11. Spell blackbird in four letters (crow).(continues on next page)
