School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 449
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- Q: As black as ink, as white as milk, and it hops on the road like hailstones
A: A magpie
Q: Ink and under a bank ten drawn four
A: A woman milking a cow
Q: I see it, you don't, tis nearer to you than it is to me.
A: The back of your poll
Q: De Valera was going down the strand one day and he had his dog with him. He was smoking his pipe and when he had gone ten yards he missed the dog and he missed the pipe also. He saw the dog coming behind him and what did the dog bring back with him.
A: This tongue
Q: As I went out a slippery gap. I met a man with a red cap. A stone in his stomach a stick
A: A haw
Q: In a filed there was a house, In the house there was a dresser. In the(continues on next page)
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