School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- An Léim Ghearr, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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She can't lick it.Who was Pontus Pilate's mother? Mrs Pilate.She went to Dublin and would not go, and came back because she would not go. A clock.What crack invisible? Crack of a whip.What goes round the house with a harrow after it? Hen and flock of chickens.Why is a promise like wine?There was a one was four weeks old and Adam was no more, and before that one was five weeks old, Adam was four score. The moon.I have no hands, I have no feet. Its on my head I go. I'm often seen in Erin's green, but never in the snow. A plough.It goes round and round the house and peeps in every hole. The sun.Why do we go to bed? Because it can't come to us.(continues on next page)
