School: Cuar an Chláir (C)
- Location:
- Cooraclare, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máiréad, Bean Uí Mháirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0631, Page 174
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- I . In Amsterdam 'tis common,
In Munster it is still,
'Tis always in a mountain
And never in a hill
Always in timber, never in people.
Still 'tis in me?
Answer the letter M./II/ As high as a wall, as red as blood,
As white as milk and as sweet as honey?
Ans. An apple/III/ It went to America and it stopped,
It came home again because it never went there?
Ans. A watch./IIII/ A hard-working father, a lazy old mother
Twelve young children all like each other?
Ans. A clock/VI/ It flies high it perches low,
It wears a shoe, but never wore it?
Ans. A football/VII/ As black as ink as white as snow
And it hopps on the road like a hail-stone?
Ans. Magpie(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Teresa Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooraclare, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Denis Horgan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Manager
- Address
- Cooraclare, Co. Clare
