School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 385
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- (continued from previous page)8. As green as grass and grass it isint as white as snow and snow it isint as red as blood and blood it isin't as black as ink and ink it isn't? A black-berry.
9. As I went up the road I meet my aunty Rosein with thimble toes and an iron nose and pon my word she's frighten the crows? A gun.
10. How is it that a hen picks a pot? Because she cannot lick it.
11. Two ducks before a duck two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle. How man ducks is that? Theree ducks.
12. As I went out on my Grand fathers gap I saw twenty bull tearing up the ground? A harrow.
13. A man without eyes saw apples on a tree he took no apples of the tree and no apples there left he and how could that be? He had one eye and saw two apples.
14. Little red Nancy would the little red nose, the longer she lives the shorter she grows? A candle.
15. If Tom's father was Dick's son what was Dick to Tom? A grandson.
16. What part of a cow comes out of the stable first? A cow's breath "breadth".
17. The is a thing in this house neither within or without? A window.
18. What is full and hold more? A pot full of(continues on next page)
