School: Dromcollchoille (B.)
- Location:
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Mathghamhna
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- (continued from previous page)its as red as blood, and blood it isn't, its as black as ink, and ink it isn't?
A blackberry.
Its black and white, and red all over?
A newspaper
I have a little house, and a mouse wouldn't fit in it, and all the ment in Ireland, couldn't count how many windows in it?
A timble
A blind fiddler had a sister, and the sister had no brother. What was the blind fiddler to the sister? Her sister.
Two highlanders dressed in white, one got flu, and died last night?
Two candles
I went up the boreen, and down the boreen and I carried the boreen in my back?
A ladder
What goes up when rain comes down?
An umbrella(continues on next page)
