School: Cill Thiomáin, Durrus, Bantry (roll number 15989)
- Location:
- Kilcomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)42. I went up a path I went down a path and took the path on my back. ladder
43. As I went up a slippery gap I met two things hanging I drank their blood and ate their flesh and left their bones hanging. A blackberry on a briar.
44. Who earns his living working backwards
A rope maker
45. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it. Coffin
46. What runs on its bed? A river
47. What runs and cannot walk Water
48. What goes up when the rain comes down Umbrella
49. What is deeper than the sea A tailor's thimble
50. Black I am and red I will be and many a man has injured me they broke my head and cut my face and brought me from my native place. turf
51. As black as ink, as white as snow, and hops on the road like hailstone. A Magpie.
52. Two black men and one white man went motoring one day, two black ate one white man what was the number of the motor? 281
53. Under water over water and never touches the water, An egg in duck's belly
54. A hard working father a lazy mother and twelve little children all the same colour. The face of a clock
55. How many feet have forthy sheep a shepherd(continues on next page)
