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School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget

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Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
F. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0866, Page 223

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    Black I am and much admired, and many a man and horse I tired, gold and silver paid for me and its on the dung-hill now Im laid.
    Culm.
    Why does a cow look over a ditch?Because she cant look under it.
    Riddle me riddle men anty roe my father gave me some seeds to sow the seeds were black and the ground was white riddle me that and I will give you a pipe
    Ink and white paper.
    All around the wood and never goes in to the wood
    The bark of a tree.
    If I were in the Sun and if you were out of it
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