School: Rath Sionnaigh
- Location:
- Rashenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Suibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1122, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)27. What has teeth, and cannot eat, A comb.
28. What walks on the top of its head. A nail in your shoe.
29. What is the difference between a hungry boy and a baker, Ans because both of them wants the bread.
30. A houseful, a roomful, but could not lift a spoonful. Ans - Smoke.
31. What has a tongue, but cannot speak. Ans - A shoe.
32. Eight arms, a wooden leg has no shoes, but is shod with steel, is often wet, a dress of silk with a belt around the middle - Ans - an umbrella
33. Why is a pig a wonderful animal Ans - because he is killed and then is cured.
34. Spell black water in three letters - Ans - Ink.
35. What is it that everything has it, and so has a needle. Ans - a name.(continues on next page)
