School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)crúisgín took it up and put it into German.
A blackberry on a briar.
b Your eye soon 'seen' it,
Your hand took it up,
And put it into your mouth.
25. Why does a donkey eat thistles? Because he is an ass.
26. What would you fill a barrel with to make it lighter?
Holes
27. Three feet standing cold dead, four feet standing warm in blood the head of the living in the body of the dead.
A pig eating out of a pot.
28. Chip, chip cherry all the the men in Derry wouldn't climb chip, chip cherry.
Smoke.
29. Who is he a highly favoured man that marries many a wife, and still lives single all his life.
A priest.
30. A lepper of ditches a clipper of hedges a little brown cow with a leather pair of horns. A hare.
