School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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Answer: A pot.
I have a little calf, he is tied to the wall, and he would eat all the hay from here to Donegal?
Answer: A fire.
What goes up the hill and over the hill and still never moves ?
Answer: A road.
What goes round the wood, and round the wood, and never touches the wood?
Answer: The bark of a tree.
How can you take a pear from an apple tree?
Answer: Take two and you have a pair.
What is the quickest way to fill a barrel?
Answer: With air.
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