School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 214
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83. Inside and outside, and neither within nor without? A window.
84 As I went out a gap I found white eating white - a white cow eating white cabbage.
85. There was a little house and it would not fit a mouse and there were as many windows in it as the Lord Mayor's house? A thimble.
86 How do you cure a slow horse? Tie him to a gate and make him fast.
87. A little bottomless vessel full of human flesh - a thimble.
88 There was a man and he went to see an apple tree. There were apples on the(continues on next page)
