School: Gaile, Caisleán Mumhan (roll number 15299)
- Location:
- Gaile, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Meachair
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A. A cake of bread in an oven.
Q. What is it that cannot walk though it has four legs, a head and foot.
A. A bed
Q. What is it that turns without moving.
A. Milk
Q. What is it that has twelve wings but cannot fly.
A. A shilling
Q. Father and mother sister and brother running all day and cannot catch up to each other.
A. The four wheels of a motor car.
Q. How many sides to a bucket.
A. Two, inside and outside
Q. Twenty sick sheep went out a gap one died. How many came back.
A. Ninteen
Q. There is a little house and a mouse could not fit in it and all the men in Derry could not count the windows(continues on next page)
