School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 038
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- (continued from previous page)S. A woman milking a goat.
P. Under the water over the water and never touches the water?
S. An egg in a duck.
P. As I looked out the window I saw the dead carrying the live?
S. A person on a bicycle.
P. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap one died how many were left?
S. Nineteen.
P. Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more after that six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that?
S. Five.
P. It is all pains and never sick?
S. A window.
P. Hitty, hatty on the wall, Hitty, hatty got a great fall, ten men and ten more wouldn't put Hitty, hatty as it was before?
S. A broken egg.
P. As round as an apple as deep as a scull and it never cracks until you pull?
S. A bell.
P. What God never sees what a king seldom sees what we see everyday?
S. An equal.(continues on next page)
