School: Sailcheartáin (Sillahetane), Dúnmaonmhuighe
- Location:
- Sailcheartán, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Íte Ní Chléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0304, Page 093
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Little Miss Anne, she sits in the wall,
If you gave her butter, she'd eat it all,
If you gave her salt, she'd cry,
If you gave her water she'd die.Ans: The fire.
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6
Name three things that cannot be got.
Ans. A sheet for the bed of the ocean,
A cap for the Old Head of Kinsale,
A Shoe for the foot of the mountain
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7.
There was man of Adam's race,
Who has a certain dwelling place,
'Twas neither in earth, heaven, nor hell,
And yet it was a dwelling place
Ans: Jonah in the whale.
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8
If on land you may fall, or from high tower tall
Castle, or low wall, against the same thing you will certainly fall.
Ans: Against your will.
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9.
The man that made it never wore it ,
And the man that wore it never saw it.
Ans: A Coffin.
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10
The beginning of eternity,
The end of time & space,
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place.
Ans: the letter E.
