School: An Ghráinseach
- Location:
- Gransha More, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Nic Uaid
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- 16. How do you compare a loaf of bread on the church steeple with a race horse.
Answer Both are "high bread"
17. Why is it dangerous to be in a train
Answer. Because it is running over sleepers.
18. I went up a wee road, I came down a wee road and I carried the wee road on my back.
Answe a ladder
19 What goes along the road and its head down. Answer A nail in a man's boot.
20 Blackie and Whitey went over the hill Blackie came down and Whitey stayed still Ans. Black Hen going to lay a white egg.
Gerald Mc Coly Mullinacloy
21. What turns without moving Ans. Milk
22 What goes from place to place and leaves a white rag on every bush Ans. Snow
23. Two feet short, cut a bit off it and it is long enough. Ans. A grave
24. What goes round and round the wood and never goes into it.
Ans. The bark of a tree.
25. As white as milk, as black as ink and hops on the road like hailstones
Ans. A magpie.
26. What sleeps all night with its finger in its(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Toal
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Conaghy, Co. Monaghan
