School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)34. How long would you live an (d) stirrabout? (stir-about)? A short time.
35. Four stick standers found dilly danders, two hookers, two crooners and a whisk-about? Cow.
36. N, N, O, O, L and D put that together and spell for me? London.
37. Four legs standing, two legs wagging and four legs lying in press?
A mare on foal and a rider.
38. What is big and yet you see it small?
Sun.
39. I have a grey goose, she is of a great size, the man that would buy her would want to be wise. She is always far away and seldom at home. She has feet on her body and walks upon none.
Ship.
40. As I went up a cairn hill I met a little creature. I put her in my pocked afraid the ducks would eat her. She began bawl and I began to beat her I pegged her in a shough the way the ducks would eat her. [Frog]
41. Black as ink, white as milk, hops on the ground like hailstones? [Mag].
42. As I was going through yon church yard(continues on next page)
