School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. The moon.
22. As round as an apple as plump as a ball. can climb the church over steeple and all.
Ans. The sun.
23. As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the kings horses could not draw it up.
Ans. A well.
24. Twenty sick (six) sheep went out in a gap one died how many came back?
Ans. Nineteen.
25. A leaper of ditches a clipper of thorns a little brow with leathern horns.
Ans. A rabbit.
26. Four lillylanders, four stickstanders, two lookeders, two crookeders and a lash about.
Ans. A cow.
27. As I went up the hill of wonders. I saw twenty four blackbirds leaving the hill(continues on next page)
