School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
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- (continued from previous page)A head of cabbage. Why is the sun like jelly.
Because it sets.
- What is it a rich man wants, a poor man has, a deaf man hears, and a blind man sees.
Nothing.As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hailstone. What is it?
A magpie. What is it you can't see but you can hear it?
The wind. I have a little house, and a mouse cannot live in it, and(continues on next page)
