School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)
- Location:
- Buckode, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Muiris Mac Gearailt
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- How would you compare a horse collar to a ship?
Eeach of them crosses the mane.
On green gravel I do travel. On green grass I do stand. I rode the mare that never was foaled and held the briddle in my hand?
A man driving a train.
What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns for its master many a pound?
A fiddle.
What goes through the wood and through the wood and leaves a [?] on every bush?
The snow.
I have a wee cow with her back to the wall and she would eat a(continues on next page)
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