School: Fahan Lower (roll number 14506)
- Location:
- Fahan Lower, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: R. Ó Cléirigh
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- As I looked out my grandfathers window I saw the dead carrying the living?
Answer: A ship.
What goes round the tree, and round the tree, and never gets into the heart of the tree?
Answer: The bark.
Why is a rug like a bottle of medicine?
Answer: One has to be taken up and shaken, the other has to be shaken up and taken.
What does a sparrow be angry if you called him a pheasant?
Answer: Because you would be making game of him.
A hard working father
A lazy mother
Twelve children, and a white-washed floor?
Answer: A clock
As I went over the sea sand
I fell and broke my knee band
All the doctors in sea sand
Couldn't cure my knee band?
Answer: An egg
A house full of roomful
Couldn't lift a spoonful?
Answer: Smoke.(continues on next page)- Collector
- James Lindsay
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal