School: Achadh Eóchaille, Inis Céin (roll number 10243)
- Location:
- Aghyohil Beg, Co. Cork
- Teacher: C. Ó Ríordáin
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- How many sides in a bucket?
Answer. Two inside and outside.What can sing without a voice?
Answer. A kettle.My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel,
It's all the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
the matter's true, although its strange
My head and body severed thus,
immediately to nothing change?
Answer. The figure 8What goes in dry and comes out wet and the longer it's within the stronger it gets?
Answer. Tea Why is a torn flag like a worn sixpence?
Answer. one is a tattered banner and the other is a battered tanner.How many kinds of trees are in the forest?
Answer. Two crooked and straight.I had an uncle and he had a brother, and he was no uncle of mine.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eileen O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghyohil Beg, Co. Cork