School: An Talamh Bán
- Location:
- Tallavbaun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)The more you take out the bigger it gets.
A hole in the ground.Black and white went up a ladder
Black came down and left white above.
A hen went up and laid an eggAs round as an apple, as plump as a ball,
Can climb the church over steeple and all.
The sun.A head like a thimble, a tail like a rat,
You may guess forever but you could not guess.
A pipe.As white as milk, as black is ink,
but milk or ink it isn't
It hops on the road like a marble stone
but a marble it isn't
Magpie(continues on next page)
