School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)

Location:
Cloongee, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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  1. Guesses.
    1. Round about and round about and all head under
    Answer:- Nails in a boot
    2. There were two black men and a white man in a car and the two black ate the white man
    what was the number of the car.
    Answer:- 281
    3. Twenty four white cows lying in the hall the red one came out and licked them all.
    Answer:- A persons tongue teeth.
    4. Share an apple and a half between a fiddler and his wife and a piper and his mother.
    Ans:- The piper's mother was the fidder's wife and got a half.
    5. Two stickstanders two belly-banders two hookins two crookins and a slasher.
    Ans:- A cow.
    6. I went up sandyhill and sad sandyhill was shaking and all the birds in sandyhill were gathered in an acre.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
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