School: Drumatemple (B.) (roll number 7496)
- Location:
- Drumatemple, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Michael Quinn
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- 1. What is it the more you take the more you leave behind. Answer - Your footsteps2. As black as ink and ink it is not. As white as milk and milk it is not. It hops on the road like a marble stone and a marble stone it is not?
Answer - A magpie3. Under the water and over the water and never touches the water?
Answer - An egg in a duck4. The man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it?
Answer - a coffin5. Inside to your house I come many a time. And high on the shoulders of a man I climb and when I go out just over your head. I am as thin as a line of silken thread?
Answer - Smoke6. Why should Ireland soon be rich?
Answer - Because its capital in Dublin7. Three pots boiling and no fire under
Answer - A spring well8. What is it that we see every day and god never sees?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peter Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonruff, Co. Galway