School: N. Breandáin, Cathair na Mart

Location:
Westport, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic A. Ó Módhráin
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    and the end of every place.
    Answer: ‘E.’
    What’s the smallest room in the world?
    Answer: Mushroom.
    What’s the smallest bridge in the world?
    Answer: The bridge of a nose.
    It won’t go up the chimney up, or down the chimney up, but it will go up the chimney down and down the chimney down.
    Answer: An umbrella.
    There’s a baker in Lylasgow baking his bread. He’s not here. He’s not there. Not dead and not alive and still he’s in Lylasgow baking his bread. What’s his name?
    Answer: Mr. Not
    There was a man who had no eyes. He went out one night to view the skies. He saw a tree with apples on. He took no apples off and he left no apples on.
    Answer: He had one eye and he took one apple off the tree and left one on.
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