School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)legs? A bed.
100. A head full and a room full and you could not get a spoonful - smoke.
101 What goes from house to house and still never moves? A path.
102 I threw it up as white as snow, and it came down as yellow as gold - an egg.
103 It came in on the backs of the people and came out as fine as silk? Turf.
104. It was not blood, it was not flesh, it was not a bone, it grew from blood and flesh. Cut the head off it, give it a drink and it will talk until morning - a goose's quill. ( Quill - pen)
105. Why is a pig such a curious(continues on next page)
