School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0725, Page 0355
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- (continued from previous page)of the sky.When the sky is studded with stars
When stars fall from the sky
- 1. As I went out on a gap I met my uncle Davis, I sucked his blood and ate his flesh and left him lying easy.
A blackberry.
2. As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all.
The Sun.
3. What has teeth and cannot bite.
A comb.
4. Why is a black hen better than a white ben.
Because a black hen can lay a white egg and a white hen cannot lay a black egg.
5. When would three black hens make three white hens?
When they are plucked.
6. I have a little red cow, she eats all I give her, but drinks none at all.
A fire.
