School: Na Tearmoinn (B.) (roll number 8931)
- Location:
- Tarmon East, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)the rope?
Answer: A sewing machine.What is taken before it is given?
Answer: A photograph.Why is toffee like a race-horse?
Answer: Because the more you lick it the faster it goes.Why is a horse cleverer than a mouse?
Answer: Because a horse can run away with a trap and a mouse can't.What is the longest word in the English language?
Answer: "Smiles" because mile is in the middle of it.What is it that when you knock out an eye you have only a nose left?
Answer: The word 'noise'.We are two brothers, great burdens we bear, we are full all day and empty when asleep?
Answer: A pair of shoes.I know a thing with four legs and only one foot?
Answer: A bed.What has teeth and cannot eat?
Answer: A comb.Four stick standers, four dilly danders, two cruckers, two lookers and a swing about?
Answer: A cow.A long legged mother, a big bellied father, three sows alike and a red rosy daughter?
Answer: A tongs, a three legged pot and a fire.Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?(continues on next page)
