School: An Mhaing
- Location:
- Muingatlaunlush, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Christine Nic Gearaild
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- (continued from previous page)it can't go with out it?
The noise of a car.It grew in the wood, it sounds in the town and it makes money for its master?
A fiddle.Tis is, tis out tis like a trout its slippery wet and greasy?
Your tongue.Why is Denny Street like a river?
Because there are banks on each side of it.Why are your two eyes like lilies?
Because there are two "i's" is lilies.Why are your teeth like verbs?
Because the are regular and irregular.Why is a tin can tied to a dogs tail like death?
Something bound to occur a cur.How would you divide three squares of bread between the tailor and his wife the weaver and his mother?What is it that we are all doing at the same time?
Growing old.Ding Dong under a band ten drawing four?
A woman milking a cow.It isent inside or outside and still isn't in the house?
A window.A houseful and a roomful and can't a spoonful?
Smoke.As round as a marble as sharp as a lance, if you went up on it, t'would carry(continues on next page)
