School: Cill Tártáin
- Location:
- Kiltartan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0038
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- (continued from previous page)The road like hailstones?
Ans. A magpie.
43. Black and white and red all over.
Ans. A paper.
44. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap one died, how many come back?
Ans. Nineteen.
45. What always walks with its head down.
Ans. A nail in your boot.
46. Spell potato in all o's
Ans. Put one o; Put two o's; Put three o's; Put four o's; Put five o's; Put six o's; Put seven o's; Put eight o's;
47. Where was the first candle ever lit?
Ans. In the wick.
48. What goes from Yort to Galway without moving?
Ans. The road.
49. What comes with the train, goes with the train, is of no use to the train, and yet the train cannot go without it?
Ans. Noise.
50. The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
Ans. A hole.
51. What goes all round the wood but never goes into it?
Ans. A hoop in a barrel.
52. Why is a dog's tail like the bark of a tree?
Ans. Because each of them is farthest from the heart.(continues on next page)
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