School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 399
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1. Why is the letter k like a pigs tail?
Answer because it is the latter end of pork.
2. What gets bigger the more you take out of it?
Answer A hole.
3. Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more followed that two sixes two sevens five and two
How many were that?
Answer Seven.
4. What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen
Answer It is time to fix it.
5. He sits down and sits up.
Answer A frog.
6. Hoppidy hoppidy on the cows back Hoppidy hoppidy on the green grass.
Answer Hailstones.
7. what is one half of the moon like?
Answer It is like the other half.
8. It flies high it lies low it wears shoes as you may know.
Answer The road.
9. Why do people go to bed.
Answer because the bed wont come to us.
10. Higgedy haggedy on the wall higgedy haggedy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mulrooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carha, Co. Mayo
