School: Baile Rua (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- An Baile Rua, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Crosáin
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- What is an eye that cannot see. Answer: A needle. What are teeth that cannot bite. Answer: A comb. Inck and ank under the bank ten drawing four. Answer: A woman milking a cow. As I went up the garden I met my uncle Teddy pins and needles in his coat and off for Tipperary. Answer: A hedge hog. On younder clear, neither feather flesh nor bone or younder hill she lies alone. Answer: The Sun. As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the sea water would not fill it up. Answer: A tailor's thimble.(continues on next page)