School: Leyney (roll number 15384)
- Location:
- Carrownacleigha, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Sinéad de Brugha
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- (continued from previous page)I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live? the red coals in cenders.
What is full and yet holds more?
A pot of potatoes.
How would you make 91 less than ten by adding something to it? put it nine and a half.A round tub without any bottom in it for blood, flesh and bones to go into.
a ring
Round the house and round the house and yet never gets into the house.
I washed my hands in water that never was rain and dried them in a towel that never was woven or spun.
