School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)green above the bank and it's fit for a lord or lady.
Answer: A grave
14. Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty more along with that, a shepherd and his dog, how many feet went out the gap.
Answer: Two
15. The queen or Morocco built a ship an on the ship her daughter lived an I am ashamed to tell her name an I have it told three times.
Answer: Ann.
16. Forty-one white cattle tied to a stall, one red one came out and licked them all.
Answer: Tongue and teeth.
17. Humpty-dumpty sat on a wall, humpty-dumpty got a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men would not put humpty-dumpty together again.
Answer: A broken egg.
18. As I went out the boreen I met my Aunt Noreen, she had steel toes, a burned nose and on my word she would frighten the crows.
Answer: A shot gun.
19. What is bought to the table(continues on next page)- Collector
- Patrick Davis
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Leekfield, Co. Sligo