School: Leaca Riabhach, Maghcromtha (roll number 9243)
- Location:
- Lackareagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad de Búrca
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As green as grass, but grass it isn't, as red as a rose but rose it isn't, and as black as a sloe, but sloe it isn't. What is it?
A hurt.
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Under water and over water, but never touches the water.
The moon.
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What goes round the room and round the room but never stops only at the door.
A woman sweeping.
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What is it that has timber toes and iron nose and upon my word it would frighten the crows.
A gun.
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What is it; that wears boots and goes up in the air.
A football.
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One half dead the other half living and a tail wagging.
A dog with its head in a pot.
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As round as a marble as flat as a pan a half of a woman and a whole of a man.
A Penny.
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Eliza, Lizzy, Betty and Bess went down to the river to fetch a bird's nest, there was four eggs in it they took one each how many were left.
three eggs.
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Ink, Ank, under a bank ten drawing four.
A Woman milking a cow.
