School: Scoil an Chlochair, Dún Bleisce (roll number 14625)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Regis
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- RiddlesYou can go up the road and down the road and carry the road on your back- Ladder.As round as an appl, as plump as a ball, can climb the church wall over steeple and all. The SunAs black as ink as white as milk and it drops on the road like hailstones. A magpieWhat is it that always walks with its head down - a nail in your bootA little white woman and she eating herself. A candle.Ink ant[?] under a bank, ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow.I have a little red cow tied to the wall she eats all she gets and drinks no water at all. The fire(continues on next page)
