School: Ceathrú na Laithighe (Brownsgrove) (roll number 12138)
- Location:
- Brownsgrove, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó hAnnracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0415
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- (continued from previous page)If I lost a shilling and suddenly found it what would I do?
Ans: Give up looking for it.
If a man had ten sons and each son had a sister how many children would that man have?
Ans: Eleven.
If a man got sixpence for walking a mile, what would he get for walking thirty miles?
Ans: Sore feet.
Fire over it and fire under it and yet it never touches the fire.
Ans: A cake in an oven.
Black and white and read all over.
Ans: A newspaper.
As black as ink, as white as milk yet ink nor milk it isn't, it hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble-stone it isn't.
Ans: A magpie.
What are the biggest ants in the world?
Ans: Elephants
Two men were going to a fair one day and they had so many sheep each. One man said "Give me a sheep and I'll have twice as much as you".
"No", said the other. "Give me a sheep you and we'll be evens". How many sheep each had they?
Ans: Seven sheep and five sheep.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Gagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Beagh (Browne), Co. Galway
