School: Valleymount
- Location:
- Valleymount, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Cochláin
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- (continued from previous page)two little feet, two semi-circles and a circle complete?
T O B B A C O.
15. In comes four lets, whips up one leg, up jumps two legs whips up three legs, peggs it after four legs to bring back on leg?
A dog taking away a leg of mutton.
16. As I looked over my Grandfathers wall, I saw an old man and his head was bald. His beard was flesh and his mouth was horn, and suck an old man you never saw born?
A farmyard cock.
17. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty dumpty got a great fall, all the kings' horses, and all the kings' men wouldn't make Humpty dumpty again?
An egg. - 1 Why is the crow the bravest bird in the world.
Because she never shows a white feather.
2 It has two ears two eyes four legs and is dead and can jump as high as Nelsons Pillar.
An Animal(continues on next page)