School: Cromadh (C.) (roll number 9307)

Location:
Croom, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Bríd, Bean Mhic Eoin
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    Once, on a fine May morning, a young couple were going to Mass.

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    at last the Priest heard of it, and induced Kate and Davie to go to Mass separately on the first Sunday in May.
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  2. A Few old Riddles.
    2. What is the darkest thing in the world?
    a. A blind man in a dark corner, with a quenched candle, looking for a black cat.
    2. Why does a dog turn around before he lies down.
    a. Because he doesn't know the head of his bed.
    2. There is a kiln and in the kiln there is a mal and in the mal there is a lock which no man can turn.
    a. Kilmallock.
    2. The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
    a. A hole in the ground.
    2. The man that made it never wore it, the man that wore it never saw it.
    a. A coffin.
    2. It is under the fire and over the fire and it never touches the fire.
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