School: Cill na Móna (C.) (roll number 13626)
- Location:
- Kilnamona, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Síle Céitinn
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fair as the rose in morn ,she was made a bride the first day of her life and died before she was born?
Ans= Eve.
3.Why is a lame dog like a sum in addition?
Ans=because he puts down three and carries one.
4 I went up the boreen and down the boreen and brought the boreen on my back?
Ans=A ladder.
5 I washed my hands in the water that was never rained or ran ,and dried them on a towel that was never woven or spun.?
Ans=I washed them in the dew and dried them in the sun.
6 Why is a dead ass like a narrow road?
Ans=because there is no breath in him.
7 Two legs sitting on three legs on leg on her lap,up comes four legs and takes away one leg, up stands two two legs throwing back three legs following four legs to get one leg back?
Ans=A woman who was sitting on a stool and a leg of mutton on her lap and a dog took it.
8 Who is that creature which belongs to the whole world and cannot prove an equal.
Ans=the sun.
- Collector
- Peggy Barrett
- Gender
- Female
