School: Ardvarney (roll number 15116)
- Location:
- Ardvarney, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Amhaltúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0202, Page 100
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- (continued from previous page)What comes after cheese?
(A mouse)
Inkank under the bank ten drawn four?
(A woman milking a cow)
What is the difference between A and B?
(You open your mouth with A and you close it with B)
What is always behind time?
(The back of the clock)
What name would this stand for the end of pork the shortest of measure and the heaviest of weight.
(Hamilton)
What letter of the alphabet do the people use oftenest or most often?
(T)
Why is a bar of chocolate like a race horse?
(Because the quicker you lick it the quicker it goes)
A word of one syllable easy and short spelt backwards and forward the same it expresses warm from the heart and to beauty has principal claim?
(Eye)
What weight is the moon?
(1 cut four quarters)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Curneen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Drumconor, Co. Leitrim
