School: Caherelly, Grange, Kilmallock (roll number 2184)
- Location:
- Caherelly, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John Raleigh
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- (continued from previous page)139. on my breast is a father to my brother.
Answer unknown.140. In a garden there lay a beautiful maid as fair as an April morn. The first day of her life she became a wife and died before she was born?
Ans. = Eve.141. Three-quarters of a cross, and a circle complete, two semicircles joined by a line, straight, an isosceles triangle standing on its two feet, two semicircles and a circle compete?
Ans. = The word tobacco.142. When does one and one make more than two?
Ans. = Put them together and they'll make eleven.143. A motor-cyclist started from Hospital to go to Limerick a distance of twenty miles, at sixty miles an hour. the same day it happened that another motor-cyclist left Limerick for Hospital at forty miles an hour. When they met which was the nearest to Limerick?
Ans. = When the met they were the same distance(continues on next page)
