School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 341
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- As green as grass. but yet it is not grass. As red as blood but yet it is not blood. As black as ink but yet it is not ink
A blackberry.
Why does a hen pick a pot
Because she cannot lick it
What was the first bet made
The Alphabet.
What has an eye but cannot see
A needle
What is brough to the table cut and never eaten
A pack of cards
London Derry Cork and Kerry spell that without a k
That
If your mothers sister is not your mother what would she be to you
Your Aunty
What goes up a ladder with its head down
A nail in a boot
A room full a house full but yet you could not catch a spoonfull.(continues on next page)
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- Veronica Moore
- Gender
- Female
