School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Kilmessan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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- (continued from previous page)I saw from death that life did spring
Seven stood and the eight did fly
Riddle me that and I must die?
I walked into a graveyard. I saw a skull. A robin had her nest in the skull. The robin had seven young ones, and she flew away.
(98) What goes round the house with its head down? A sweeping brush.
(99) As I went up Tara Hill, Tara Hill was shaking. Four and twenty bull-dogs tearing up the nation?
A man and a harrow.
(100) What is the tallest tree in the woods.
The larch
(101) What tree grows downwards
The drooping ash.
(102) What is it that is alive at both ends and dead in the middle
A man ploughing.
(103) I had a little sister and her name was peep; peep; peep;(continues on next page)
