School: Cill Eirc
- Location:
- Killark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Druaidhe
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- (continued from previous page)(23) What flys high, lights low, cuts grass but doesn't mow? A wild goose.
(24) There is a goose in yonder meadow she is strong for her size, the man that owns her is sure to be wise, she has her feet on her body she is far from her lodging and seldom at home? A ship.
(25) In yonder meadow there is a table, in yonder table there is a drawer, in yonder drawer there is a cup, and in the cup there is a sup that every man must taste. Death.
(26) Black I am but much admired, men worm at me until they are tired. I tire horse, I comfort man my middle is hard to understand. Turf.
(27) As I went up on Drumboory hill, Dromboory hill ws shaking four and twenty blackbirds tearing up an acre. A man harrowing.
(28) What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound. A fiiddle.
(2) An old red cow lying by the wall eats all she can drinks none at all.
A fire.
(30) What's the difference between a shool mistress(continues on next page)
