School: Virginia (C )
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs B. Farrelly
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- What has a bed and never lies in it
A river
What is the hardest ship to get over
A hardship
Round the world and round the world and still in its own corner
A stamp on a letter
As black as ink as white as milk hops on the road like hailstones
A Magpie
If a farmer raises twelve acres of wheat in dry weather what will he raise in wet weather
His umbrella
What is that which touches one but unites two
A Wedding ring
Which is the strongest day in the week
Sunday because all the rest are week days
Why is a baker a silly fellow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miss Nora Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rahardrum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Owen Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rahardrum, Co. Cavan
