School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)
- Location:
- Cummery Connell (South), Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Ríordáin
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- (continued from previous page)A. When it is full.
Q. Cork and Kerry, Londonderry, spell me that without a "k".
A. That.
Q. What stick never grows in the wood.
A. A candlestick.
Q. A hard labouring father, a lazy old mother, twelve little children and they all the same?
A. A clock.
Q. If three men went into a shop to buy a hat which man would take the biggest hat?
A. The man with the biggest head.
Q. What is the last thing you take off when going to bed?
A. Your feet off the floor.
Q. Cork and Kerry, Londonderry. Spell me that with a "k"
A. That.
Q. What is always behind the time?
A. The back of a clock.
Q. Two Ns, Two o's, An l and a a. Put them together and spell them for me.
A. London.
Q. Three-fourth of a cross and a circle complete. Two semi-circles on a perpendicular meat. A right-angle triangle that stands on two feet. Two semi-circles a a circle complete.
A. T.O.B.A.C.C.O.
