School: Fairgreen
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 381
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- (continued from previous page)What stands on one leg with its heart in its head? Cabbage.
What is always behind time? The back of a clock.
What is full of holes and holds water? A sponge.
What goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in a man's boot.
A hard working father, a big fat mother, three black children one like another? A pot.
As green as grass yet it is not grass,
As white as milk yet is not milk,
Brown beard like a buck, with its tail turned up? A rush.
Why does does a donkey prefer thistles to corn? Because he is an ass.
As I went over London Bridge I met a London scholar, he too off his hat and drew his sword. What was the name if that scholar.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dorothy Magee
- Gender
- Female
