School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 249
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- (continued from previous page)68. I sat on my hunkers, and I looked through my winkers, and saw the dead burying the live.?. Ashes.
69. As I went over corny hills, the corny hills were creaking, and four and forty mads were tearing up the nation? A harrow.
70 Twenty sick (six) sheep went to a fair, one died how many were left? Nineteen.
71. What goes round the house and sits in the corner at night? A twig
72 What has legs and can't walk? A table.
73. What has ears and can't hear? Corn.
74. A wee old mother, and a big old father, and twelve little children all the same colour? A clock.
75. What fish is most valued by a married lady.? her ring.
76. What bears and does not blossom.? A crook.
77. What is it that you have, and I use it more than you.? Your name.
78. What bridge can you not cross.? The bridge of your nose.
79. What has teeth and cannot eat.? a saw.
80. What kind of fruit does a couple represent.? A pear.(continues on next page)
