School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)
- Location:
- Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 212
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- (continued from previous page)the king's horses and all the king's men wouldn't put him together again - an egg.
73 What has two eyes and can't see? A scissors.
74. What goes round and round the wood and never gets in to the wood? The bark of a tree.
75. Four stick standers, Four dilly-danders, a whipper, a cropper and a licker - a cow.
76 How many bags of turf will it take to make a bag of soot? None.
77. How long would a piece of thread want to be to reach from here to the North Pole? Long enough.
78. Under the water and over the water and is never drowned. A frog.(continues on next page)
