School: Druim na dTréad
- Location:
- Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Stondúin
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It's amaking since creation, it's amaking every day no man likes to live in it and no man likes to give it away. Answer: A bed.Alive in the front, dead in the middle and a body and soul behind? Plough - man and teamHow may (the ashes of) Westminster Abbey be compared to a fire - place? Because it contains the ashes of the great (grate)A houseful, a roomful and could not get a spoonful? Smoke.
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, a five in the middle between the first of all letters and the first of all figures? David [DAVID](continues on next page)
