School: Clohanes, Dún Beag

Location:
Clohanes, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Mícheál de Bláca
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    Smoke

    16) The more you take the more you leave behind?
    Your steps

    17) As round as a marble, as plump as a ball, it can climb over churches, steeple and all?
    The sun

    18) What is the weight of half the moon?
    The weight of the other half

    19) I had a little calf, and she'd ate all before her and everything she'd drink she'd die?
    The fire

    20) What goes to Dubli without moving?
    The Railway track

    21) If you fell from a castle what would you fall against?
    Your will

    22) What is it that turns without moving?
    New milk turning sour

    23) What is it a car does not want and yet cannot go without?
    Noise

    24) Cad é an rud é go bhfuil a chroidhe in a cheann?
    Tor cabáiste

    25) Lan páirce de bhuaibh agus tarbh dearg in a measg
    Do bhéal
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