School: Dún Flainn (roll number 9669)
- Location:
- Doonflin Upper, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)cut and never eaten.
Answer: A pack of cards.
20. Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes.
Answer: A tongs - 1. As I was going to London I saw a great wonder, ten pots boiling and no fire under.
Answer: Ten pumps of water
2. As I looked across London wall, I saw a man that had a call, his head was flesh, his mouth was horn and such a man was never born.
Answer: A cup.
3. What goes away under the ground and returns under it.
Answer: A man with sods on his head.
4. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap, one died, how many left.
Answer: Nineteen(continues on next page)- Collector
- Mary Jane James
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Farranyharpy, Co. Sligo