School: Ardnagrath (roll number 5963)
- Location:
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 340
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- (continued from previous page)21 What has an eye but cannot see?
Answer: A needle
22 What is taken from you before you get it?
Answer: Your photograph.
23 What is the hardest word in the English language?
Answer: Difficulty.
24 Patch upon patch without any stitches
Answer: A head of cabbage.
25 As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, and all the King's horses would not draw it up.
Answer: A well.
26 Round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
Answer: A broom.
27 What is behind time?
Answer: The back of a clock.
28 Why have you to go to bed?
Answer: Because the bed will not come to you.
29 What goes to Dublin without stopping?
Answer: The road.
30 What smells most?
Answer: The nose.
31 What is half the moon like?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Frank Mann
- Gender
- Male
