School: Laragh (B.)
- Location:
- Larah, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)There was a thing just four weeks old when Adam was a boy ere that thing never was five weeks old when Adam was four score?
The moon.I have a knife of ivory its bounded round with misery it would fight a bull it would beat a bear it would conquer all the birds in the air?
House.
- There was a thing just four weeks old when Adam was a boy ere that thing never was five weeks old when Adam was four score?
The moon.I have a knife of ivory its bounded round with misery it would fight a bull it would beat a bear it would conquer all the birds in the air?
House.What is that which a woman always looks for yet never wishes to find?
A hole in her stocking.What goes round the house and round the house & drags a tether after it?
A hen and a flock of chicks.As long as my arm
As black as a slow
A long switching tail
Which sends a red glow
A gun.What goes over the hill and never comes back?
A path.(continues on next page)
