School: Baile Sluagh (Ballysloe), Gleann Guail, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 573)
- Location:
- Ballysloe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0561, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)The beggining of eternity, the end of time and space; the beggining of every end, and the end of every race.
Answer - the letter E.
What three letters frighten a thief?
Answer - I.C.U.
Chip-chop-cherry all the men in Derry wouldn't climb chip-chop-cherry.
Answer - smoke.
I went up the path and down the path and carried the path on my back.
Answer: a ladder.
As I went up a gap I met my uncle Davy. He had a timber head and iron toes and upon my word he would frighten the crows.
Answer: a gun.
What does round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood.
Answer: the bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
