School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 016
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- (continued from previous page)when Adam was a boy and wasn't five weeks old when he was a man? The moon.
As I sat on my hunkers I looked through my winkers, and I saw the dead burying the living? A person putting dead ashes on hot coals.
As high as a wall, as red as blood, as white as milk, as sweet as honey? An Apple.
What has two eyes and can't see? the scissors.
Long legs short thighs little head and no eyes? The tongs.
Spell mouse trap in three letters? Cat.
Four standards four diddledanders, two peepers, two clappers, two crucketies, and a long wig wag? A Cow.
Forty sheep went through a gap forty more went after that, six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that? Five.
What goes over the water and under the water, and never touches it? An egg in a duck.
A small thing which grew on a tree, two saw it, five took it, twelve chewed it and one swallowed. An apple?(continues on next page)
