School: Cluainteach (C.), Newtownforbes
- Location:
- Cloontagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Garaidh
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- (continued from previous page)6. Which would you rather have a "little fat pig" or a "fat little pig"
Fat little pig.
7. I'm made of clay as people say, but yet as white as snow, I turn black, a little crack would prove my overthrow. I have a head that's fed with food without a joke. I protest, I do digest my object all in smoke.
Pipe8. In marble walls as white as milk, lined with skin as soft as silk, within a fountain crystal clear as golden apple doth appear, no doors there are to this stronghold yet thieves break in, and steal the gold.
An egg.
9. As white as milk, and milk it is not,
As green as grass, and grass it is not,
As red as blood, and blood it is not,
As black as ink, and ink it is not.
A blackberry(continues on next page)
