School: Ráth Mhaoláin (Robertson) (roll number 10374)
- Location:
- Rathmullan, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Stiopháin
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- (continued from previous page)One is shaken up and taken and the other is taken up and shaken.
7) What has two wings but cannot fly?
A cart
8) Everything has it and so has a needle?
A name
9) What is the most useless thing you could have in your pocket?
A hole.
10)How many sticks go to make a crow's nest?
None, they are all carried.
11) What goes up the chimney down, and won't come down the chimney up?
An Umbrella.
12) What has a head and a heart and can stand?
A cabbage.
13) As round as the moon, as flat as a pan, the whole of a woman and the half of a man?
A penny.
14) Whit is a roomful of married ladies empty?
Because there's not a single one in it.
15) Why is a lame dog like a boy doing arithmetic?
Because he puts down three and carries one.
16) Why is a dog's tail like the centre of a tree?
Because it is the furthest away from the bark
17) What turns without moving?
Milk.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bessie Mac Naught
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Daniel Mac Greory
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Killygarvan Lower, Co. Donegal