School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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“He who fights and runs away will live to fight another day but he who fights and takes his chance will exist in the ambulance.”
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As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man. Answer: A penny.
What is it that has a head and cant get a hat to fit it. Answer: Bray-head. Long and narrow, thin and tall cause many a man to fall. Answer: A gun
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess forever but you wont guess that. Answer: A pipe. It is in the marrow and its not in the bone its in the rock and its not in the stone. It is in the river and it is not in the(continues on next page)