School: Drumdigus (B.), Cill Mhuire (roll number 13478)

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Drumdigus, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Éamonn Mac Gearailt
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    'T was neither flesh, fish, fowl or bone
    Yet I kept it until it walked alone
    Ans:- An Egg.
    Question:- The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it
    Ans:- A Coffin
    Question:- As round as a marble as flat as a pan
    Half a woman and all of a man
    Ans:- A penny
    Question:- As black as ink, as white as milk
    And it hopping on the road like hailstone
    Ans:- A magpie.
    Question:- Two brothers are we
    Great burdens we bear
    All day we are bitterly pressed
    And yet I must say
    We are full all the day
    And empty we go to rest
    Ans. Two boots
    Question:- Tis red, tis blue
    Tis emer_ld green
    The king can't get at it
    No more than the queen
    Ans:- A rainbow
    Tink, Tank. under a bank
    Ten drawing four
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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