School: Barkhall (roll number 8343)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: J. L. Browne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1083, Page 330
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- What is as white as snow, as green as grass, as red as blood, and as black as ink?
A blackberry.
It is cut in the wood, and it sounds in the town and it earns its master many a pound?
A fiddle.
I went down between two woods and came up between two waters.
Going for water.
Jennie with the white dress, Jennie with the red nose, the longer she sits the shorter she grows.
A candle.
Two carol singers were singing in the snow, one was the father to the other ones son. What relation were they to each other?
Husband and wife.
What goes round and round the wood but never gets into the wood?
Bark of a tree.
What goes round and round the house with its father's coat on it?
A sheep.
What belongs to you and others people use it more than you do yourself?
Your name(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Fanny Elliott
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr John Elliott
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
