School: Béal Átha Conaill (2)
- Location:
- Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Laing
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0968, Page 004
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- (continued from previous page)a footless stocking without a leg.
What roof covers the noisiest tenant?
The roof of the mouth.
What is the smallest bridge in the world?
The bridge of your nose.
What bears and never blossoms?
The crook.
Where did the cock crow that everyone in the world heard him?
In the ark.
What has neither flesh nor bone and has four fingers and a thumb?
A glove.
If your uncle's flesh sister is not your aunt what relation must she be to you?
Your mother.
What lives in winter dies in summer and grows with it's roots upwards?
An icicle.
In a garden was laid a beautiful maid as fair as the flowers of morn. The first hour of her life she became a wife and died before she was born.
Eve,
I went up the wee road down the wee road and I carried the wee road on my back.
A ladder.(continues on next page)
