School: Cluain Cátha (roll number 2243)
- Location:
- Cloncaw, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hanluain
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- (continued from previous page)was very cold until he got her pushed off the sheet and when the gentleman came in and saw that the sheet was away he had to go away through the country and sell the place.
- Riddles.
1. I have no head, and tail I lack but oft have arms and legs and back, I inhabit the palace the tavern the cot, tis a beggeraly residence where I am not. If a monarch were present I'll tell you no fable I'd always be placed at the head of the table. Ans. A chair.
2 Why does a hen cross the road.
Ans. To get to the other side.
3. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns for its master many a pound. Ans. A Fiddle.
4. What begins at the one end of the wood and eats it all over. Ans. A pig eating out of a trough.
5. A head like a thimble a tail like a rat you may guess for ever but you'll never guess that. Ans. A pipe.
