School: Knockminna (roll number 12720)
- Location:
- Knockmoynagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Scannláin
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- (continued from previous page)Which travels faster heat or cold.
Heat, because you can catch cold.
What thing never takes its hands off its face
A Clock.
What is taken from you before you get it.
Your Photo.
Why are tall people more lazy than stout ones.
Because they are longer in bed.
Black and white and read all over.
The newspaper.
Thirty horses upon a red hill now they tramp, now they tramp, now they are still.
A set of teeth.
What is that which is often put on a table, cut and passed yet never eaten.
A pack of cards.
