School: Clonmellon (C.) (roll number 9501)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)What is taken from you before you get it?
Your photo.
What goes up the chimney down but can't come go down the chimney up? Ans umbrella.
There was a man went through this town.
Great Grizzle was his name, his boot and spur was guilt with gold and that's three times I spelt his name? Was.
What is it that's brought to the table, passed around the table, cut but never eaten? A pack of cards.
What is the difference between an eg and a chicken? Three weeks.
What is it that has a head, a foot and four legs and a lot of feathers and yet its neither a bird nor a beast?
A feather bed.
As green as grass and grass it is not, as white as milk and milk it is not, as red as blood and blood it is not, as black as ink and ink it is not?
Ans A blackberry.
- Collector
- Olive Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
