School: Baile an Chnuich (Hilltown)
- Location:
- Hilltown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Simon Murphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)was gilt of gold and there, three times I have told his name?
A. Was.
Q. As I looked out through my window so gay I say the death carrying the live away?
A. A ship.
Q. I have but one horn though I am no unicorn
I am milked though I am no Kerry cow, my
Grandmother loves me and around the board
shoves me with a smile of good look on her brow?
A. A tea-pot.
Q. Three little tricky pups, three, tray, and tran. witch is the bitche's name tell me if you can
A. Witch.
Q. In huts and palaces I am found, in corners low and high and although I have no wings I sometimes take a little fly.?
A. A spider.
Q. How would you get from Dover to France?
A. Cross out the D and your over.
Q. As black as ink, as white as milk and hops on the road like hailstones?
A. A magpie.
Q. How many feet have forty sheep a shepherd and his dog?
A. Two feet.(continues on next page)
