School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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- (continued from previous page)(7) What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree?
Ans one sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed
(8) What is it that has a head with nothing in it?
Ans A nail
(9) What eats and eats and never gets full?
Ans A threshing machine
(10) What shoemaker makes shoes without leather?
Ans The Black smith.
(11) What do you get every day
Ans. A day older.
(12) As I was going through the fields I met my sister Ann. I pulled off her head and sucked her blood and left her body stand?(continues on next page)
