The red is the brick, the black is the soot, and the four corners make it square. Halliwell got it from Yorkshire.
Black within and red without, four corners round about. What is it?
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The black comes from the fire.
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A chimney
Source: J. O. Halliwell, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales, 1849