School: Cill Tormóir (Cailíní)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Rós, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)What is your Mother's brothers, brother-in-law to you?
Your Father.Mick's father was Jack's son what relation was Jack to Mick?
His grandson.If three-pence were paid for every bag of turn that was burned, what would it come to in the week?
It would come to ashes.Spell blind pig in two letters?
Pg because when he is blind he has no eye.Eight arms, no hands, a wooden leg, that cannot stand, dressed in silk, and a belt round the middle can you guess this silly riddle?
An umbrella.What goes up the ladders and it's heads down?
Nails in a shoe.As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, it never cries out til it's caught by the tail?
A bell.Why is a vain young lady like a confirmed drunkard?
Because neither is satisfied with a modern use of the glass.Why is the middle of a tree like a dog's tail?
Because it is the farther away from the bark.What goes out of the house every day, and never makes a noise?
Smoke.(continues on next page)
