School: Crossroads (roll number 4143)
- Location:
- Garshooey, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: M. Philips
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1107, Page 12
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- Chip chip cherry all the mary in Derry (chould) couldn't climb chip-chip cherry.
Answer: Smoke.
What has an eye and cannot see?
Answer: A Needle.
What has wings and cannot fly?
Answer: A Cart.
What has a tongue and cannot speak?
Answer: A Shoe.
Why has a cow to look over a hill?
Answer: Because she cannot see over it.
What turns without moving?
Answer: Milk.
How many feet have forty sheep, a shepherd and his dog?
Answer: Two.
Hoddy-Doddy with a big round body. Three feet and an iron hat?
Answer: A Pot.
As round as an apple, as plumb as a ball, can climb over church and steeple and all?
Answer: The Sun.
Long legs, crooked thighs, wee head and no eyes.
Answer: The Tongs.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Betty Phillips
- Gender
- Female
