School: Beann Gulban (roll number 3301)
- Location:
- Kiltykere, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Giolla Mhártain
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ink and ink it isn't, what is it?
Ans:- A blackberry.1. The King of the rocks built a ship
an(d) in the ship his daughter dwelt an(d) I'd be sorry to tell her name an(d) there's three times I've told it.
Ans:- Ann.2. A little thing a little smaller than a mouse : and has more holes than windows in a king's house.
Ans :- A thimble.3. What grows to the ground?
Ans :- A cow tail.4. Four little sisters so long and so thin when one is out the other is in.
Ans :- Knitting needles.5. A leapper of ditches, a clipper of throns, two leather lugs and a pair of horns.
Ans :- A goat.6. Fatherless, motherless, born without sin, came to the world and was never heard of again.
Ans :- A new day.7. What has a mouth and no tongue?
Ans :- A river.