School: Radharc na Sionainne (roll number 16477)
- Location:
- Clooncah, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Nóirín Ní Uiginn
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- (continued from previous page)12. How many sides in a tin can? (Twenty - ten (tin) inside & tin outside)
13. I looked out my grandfather's window and I saw the dead carrying the live - what was that? (A man riding a bicycle).
14. I have an old cow and she lies by the wall.
Give her hay, give her straw and she will eat it all up.
(a fire).
15. I give her hay I give her straw
She eats up it all : I give her wind she will fly.
And if I give her water she will die
(a fire)
16. What is the hardest thing in the world to do?
(To put a bridle on a nightmare)
(To put a lock on a camels trunk).
(To spread a sheet on the bed of a river)
17. The more you take out of it the bigger it gets.
(a well).
18. Spell red rogue with three letters (fox).
19. As I looked out the window I saw my Uncle Davy.
I cut off his head and left him lying easy
(a head of cabbage)A lepper of ditches.
A clipper of thorns.
A brown little cow.
With two leather horns.
(hare)
