School: Ashfort (B.), Ráthluirc

Location:
Ashford, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Muiris Ó Mathúna
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  1. Black and white and read all over?
    A newspaper
    Why is a muddy road like a loaded rifle?
    Because it is full of cartridges.
    I was going up a hill of thunder I met twenty four bulls and they were tearing the hill asunder?
    A harrow.
    I went out a slippery gap, I met my uncle Davy, I cut off his head, and left his body airy?
    A head of cabbage.
    Black I am though much admired men and horses I have tired, gold and silver I have made; yet in the dump pit I am laid?
    Coal.
    Big long tom with a big red nose
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