School: Teach Mhic Conaill (roll number 15614)
- Location:
- Taghmaconnell, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Tuathaig
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- 1. Round body, small skull, always eating and never full.
Answer = A Chimney
2. As white as milk and milk it isn't, as green as grass and grass it isn't, as red as blood and blood it isn't, as black as ink and ink it isn't.
Answer = a Blackberry
3. As I went out the slippery gap, I met a man with a red cap. He was more afraid of the cock and the hen, than the king and all his men.(continues on next page)