School: Baile an tSléibhe (roll number 1524)
- Location:
- Cornalee, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Níc Coisdeabha
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- (continued from previous page)41. What two towns in France are like a sailors trousers?
Tolouse and Toulong.
42. As white as a lily, as red as a rose. The longer it lives the shorter it goes
A Candle.
43. What month in the year do the women walk the least?
In the month of February
44. A Rope - makers daughter get married to a soap makers son. The fortune he gave her was twenty ropes. On every rope there were, twenty knots. On every knot there were twenty purses. In Every purse there were twenty pence What was fortune he gave her?
45. What part of the cow comes out the door first in the morning?
Her Breath(continues on next page)
