School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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- As white as milk as black as silk and hops on the ground like hailstones.
A Magpie.In the garden was (ever) laid a most beautiful maid that ever was seen in the morning. She was made a wife the first day of her life and died before she was born.
Eve.Its red and yellow, lantern green. The King can't touch it no more than the Queen. The Pope in his room can touch it as soon and if tour a good scholar you'll tell me by noon.
A Rainbow.As I looked out through my gay gold ring
I saw the dead carrying the living
A Ship.
- What is it that eats all it gets and drinks nothing at all
A Fire.Why is the letter A like a honeysuckle
Because it is followed by the BWhat two animals do most people brin(continues on next page)
