School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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Ink ank under bank, ten drawing four?
Answer: A person milking a cow.
There is a great temple supported by a single column, the column is surrounded by twelve towns, each town has thirty buttresses and beside each buttress are two women, one white and the other black. What is this temple?
Answer: The temple is the world, the column the year, the twelve towns the months, the thirty buttresses, the days and the two women day and night.
Why is a Christmas pudding like a swiftly running river?
Answer: Because its full of currants.
Hoddy, doddy, with a big black tody and a big flat hat, what(continues on next page)
