School: Crannach, Inis
- Location:
- Cranny, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Maolchaoin
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What key is the hardest to turn?
A. A donkey
Q. Under the water and over the water and yet never touches the water.
A. The sun
Q. A houseful and a roomful and you could not take a spoonful.
A. Smoke
Q. What is the longest word in the English language.
A. Because, Beleagues, because there is a league between the first and the last letters.
Q. What is always behind time
A. The back of a clock
Q. As I went out a slippery gap I met my Uncle Denis. He would be more afraid of a cock or a hen than all the men in ennis.
A A worm
Q. When is a door not a door?
A. When it is a-jar
Q. As round as a marble, as deep as a cup and all the men in Clare could not take it up.
A. A well.
