School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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- (continued from previous page)65. What have you got? You didn’t use it but everyone else uses it for you?
-name.
66. A little white and round house,
And it is full of meat.
But it has no doors or windows
To let me in to eat.
-An egg.
67. Whitie and blackie went over the hill.
Blackie came back but whitie stayed still.
-hen & egg.
68. What turns without moving?
-Milk
69. Wee Jenny Huddle sits in her puddle.
The longer she sits the shorter she grows.
She wears a white gown & a red nose
-Candle
70. I have a wee mare with an iron throat.
The faster she gallops she swallows the rope [sic]
-sowing machine
71. I have a wee mare she’s tied to the wall
She’d eat all the fodder from here to Donegal
-fire- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female