School: Kilflynn, Lic Snámha (roll number 15033)
- Location:
- Kilflyn, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Hallmhúráin
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- (continued from previous page)but cannot stand, is often wet, but cannot feel, has no boots, but is shod with steel, a dress of silk, with a belt around the middle. Now can you guess me this silly riddle. An umbrella.
Why is the letter T like Easter. Because it comes at the end of Lent.
What is it you see twice in a moment once in a month and never in a thousand years. The letter M.
Why is smiles the longest word in the Alphabet? Because there is a mile between the first and last letter.
What is half the moon like? It is like the other half?
Riddle me shuch a riddle could not be, through a gig through a reel through an old spinning wheel through an old shin bone? A needle in a bundle of thread. What part of the house is never white washed. The floor.
What plant bears the most fruit to market. The axel.
If all the trees in the wood went for a race, which was the slowest. The sloe tree.
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