School: Gleanntán
- Location:
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Daghnáin
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What goes up when the rain comes down? Answer = An umbrella
20.
What goes round the house and round the house and stops in the corner? Answer = A brush
21.
What has a broad foot but no sign of a leg? Answer = A hill.
22.
When is a spider like a cork? Answer = When it stops a blue-bottle.
23.
What is one side of the moon like? Answer = The other half.
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Two yanks went into a public house in Cove. It happened that one of the yanks was the father of the other yank's son. How was that? One of the yanks was a woman.
25.
What is the last thing you do before you go into bed? Answer: Take your feet off the ground.
26.
What is it you take a bit off to make it longer. Answer: A grave
27.
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup, all the men in the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mícheál Ó Dómhnaile
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glounthaune, Co. Cork
