School: Raskall
- Location:
- Raskill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Áine Nic Mhaoláin
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- (continued from previous page)A. A piece of coal.
Q. Which of all the sides of a drinking glass is the handle.
A. The outside.
Q. What has an eye and cannot see?
A. A needle.
Q. What goes round the house and lies in the corner at night.
A. A brush.
Q. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound.?
A. A fiddle.
Q. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, on one side a woman and the other a man.
A. A penny.
Q. What sleeps with its finger in its eye.
A. A crook.
Q. Black and white went over the hill; black came back and white lay still.
A. A hen laid an egg.
Q. What's full and holds more?
A. A pot of potatoes.
Q. A little red
