School: Baile Theas (C.), Malla (roll number 4954)
- Location:
- An Baile Theas, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Bríd Bean Uí Dhála
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0365, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)A rainbow
I am full of leaves I cannot read I go to school every day
A book
I met a little man in the middle of a field if you pulled his tail his nose would bleed
A pumpThree fourths of a beast with short ears to his head three fourths of a fish in the sea was bred, half of a bandage tied below your knee will tell you the name of a Leinster city
Mullingar
(got from Mr T. Croake RIP N T Ballyhass school years ago) When is your hair like the sea
When tis waved
How many sides in a jug
Two the inside and the outside
On what trees has fire no effect on
Ash trees because when burnt they are still ashes
What is it that we often return but never borrow
Thanks
What has legs but cannot walk
A Chair
Whats the difference between a black hen and a white hen
A black hen can lay a white egg but a white(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Chrissie Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
