Halliwell’s Northumberland version starts “banks full, braes full”, and that one is the mist.
A house full, a yard full, and you can’t catch a bowl full. What is it?
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It comes from a fire.
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Smoke
Source: J. O. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, 1849