School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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- (continued from previous page)Q. As black as ink; as white as milk; and it hops on the ground like hail-stone
A. MagpieQ. As round as a marble; as deep as a cup and all the sea would not fill it up
A. A strainer.Q. What's full and holds more?
A. A pot of potatoes when you pour water inQ. What goes round the wood, and round the wood and never gets into wood?
A. The bark of the treeQ. I went up a borheen; I went down a borheen and I took the borheen on my back.
A. A ladderQ. What is the beginning of eternity; the end of life and space; the beginning of every end and the end of every place?
A. The letter "E".Q. What is it, the longer it lives the shorter it grows?
A. A lighting CandleQ. I went into a field; there was no one there; yet there were hundred of eyes looking at me.
A. A field of potatoes.(continues on next page)