School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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- If my mother sent to your mother for a tub without a bottom to hold flesh and blood?
A thimble.
If a farmer put up ten stacks of corn in a good year what would he put up in a bad year?
An Umbrella.
Twenty white cows tied to a wall out comes a red one and licks them all? Your teeth and tongue.
What walks on its head?
A nail in your boot.
As I went in a slippy slap I met my uncle Davit, a stick in his hand, a stone in his middle?
A haw.
Little Nancy Eticoat in a white peticoat the longer she stands the shorter she grows?
A candle.
What is taken to the table, cut but never eaten?
A pack of cards
What smells most in a chemists shop?
Your nose(continues on next page)- Collector
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