School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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- (continued from previous page)Ans- two shoes
10. Two long legs, two crooked thighs, a small head and no eyes?
Ans- A tongs.
11. When is a piece of wood like a queen?
Ans- When it is made into a ruler.
12. A flock of white sheep on a red hill, here they go, there they go, now they stand still?
Ans- your teeth and your gums
13. The hard working father, the lazy old mother, twelve little children all the same colour?
Ans- The face of the clock.
14. Why is a butcher's car like his stockings?
Ans- Because he carries his calves in it.
15. Constantinople is a big word and you are a fool if you can't spell it?
Ans- "It"
16. What is it that is neither a bird nor an animal, yet has wings?
Ans- A Bat.
17. What is the difference between a seagull and a baby?
Ans- The seagull is cradled on the rocks, and the baby is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
