School: Ballybay (Hall St.) (roll number 12378)
- Location:
- Ballybay, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: C. Ó Maonaigh
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- Q Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you can't guess that.
A A pipeQ What goes up the chimney down and won't go down the chimney up.
A An umbrellaQ As black as ink as white as snow it hops on the road like hailstones.
A A magpie.Q I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live
A Raking a fire.Q My mother sent me to your mother for the loan of the hitic the hatic the round whirly gig if you please man.
A A churn.Q A housefull a roomfull and you couldn't catch a spoonful.
A SmokeQ Humpty dumpty sat on the wall humpty dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put humpty dumpty together again
A An egg.Q It's cut in the wood, it sounds in the town and earns its master many a hound.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maud Wylie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corfad, Co. Monaghan