School: Coiscéim (C.), Átha Treasna (roll number 10079)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Bean Uí Nialláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0356, Page 290
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- 1 In and out, like a trout, slippery wet and greasy?
Your tongue.2 A flock of wild sheep on a red hill, there they go, there they go, now they stand still.
Teeth & gums
3 A jumper of ditches a clapper of thorns
A brown little fellow with two leather horns.
Rabbit.
4 It is red it is yellow it is sparable green, The King could not reach nor either the queen
Rainbow
5 What time of the day was Adam born?
Before Eve.
6 As round as a marble as deep as a cup.
All the King's horses couldn't pull it up.
A Pump.
7 As round as a marble as flat as a pan
Half of a woman and all of a man.
A Penny.
8 A petticoat has what every thing has, what has a petticoat?
A name.(continues on next page)
