School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)
- Location:
- Knocknasna, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Conchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0494, Page 235
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- (1) What is the longest word in the English language?
Smiles there is a mile between the first and last letter
2 What letter changes a biped into a drinking vessel?
G it makes a glass of a lass.3. I am pushed about all day , and yet I never drop. I am in everbody's way and yet neer I stop. My four arms each day point in every way and my head is screwed on at the top. What am I?
Turnstile4. What's as crooked as a river?
Its banks.5 What is the difference between a school teacher and a Post office clerk?
One licks with a stick and the other sticks with a lick. 6. If 9 horses draw each two of turf daily, at 9s a load what will it all come to in the end of the year?
Ashes.
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- Collector
- John O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathoran, Co. Kerry
