School: Castlerock N.S. (roll number 13242)
- Location:
- Drummartin, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Frank Haran
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- Question What is taken from you (get it) before you get it?
Answer Your photo
Q. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up.
A. A well
Q. How many sides has a bucket?
A. Two, the inside and the outside.
Q. Name three things that it would be impossible to get
A. A shoe for the foot of a mountain, a sheet for the bed of the ocean and a towel to wipe the face of the earth.
Q. It is deep and it's damp and it's green o'er the bank and it's fit for a lord or a lady.
A. A grave
Q. If you were on the top of a steeple with a goose where would you get down?
A. On the goose's breast.
Q. A man fell from a seventy-foot ladder. Why was he not killed?
A. He fell from the bottom rung.
Q. If you fell from a height what would you fall against?
A. Against your will.
Q. Out of a roomfull I could not get a(continues on next page)
