School: Clonrye
- Location:
- Clonrye, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Mearáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)Q: As black as ink, as white as snow, a lights on the road like hailstones.
Ans: A Magpie.
Q: Black and white and red all over.
Ans: The news paper.
Q: A wee house full of meat no door to go in our out.
Ans: An egg.
Q: Chip, Chip jerry all the men in Derry could not climb Chip, Chip jerry.
Ans: The smoke.
Q: What goes from door to door in the day time and sleeps out at night.
Ans: The road.
Q: What wets and dries at the one time.
Ans: A towel drying your face.
Q: I washed my hands in water that never ran or flowed and I dried my hands in a towel that was never woven or rung.
Ans: I washed my hands in the dew of the grass and I dried them tot he Sun.
Q: What goes round the house and a harrow after it.
Ans: A hen and a flock of chickens.
Q: What has a head and no face.
Ans: A Nail.(continues on next page)
