School: Coracrin
- Location:
- Corracrin, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Dhuibhghlinn
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- (continued from previous page)Answer To cover his head.
6) What is under the fire and over the fire and still never touches the fire?
Answer. A cake in an oven.
7) Through the woods and still never touches the wood?
Answer. A knife in a man's pocket.
8) It was formed long ago yet made to-day and more in use while others sleep what few would like to give away and still what few would like to help?
Answer A bed.
9) Why did Adam bite the apple Eve gave him?
Answer. Because he had no knife.
10) Why is a pigs tail like the letter oh.
Answer cause it is the end of pork.
11) It grew in the wood and sunds in te twon, and earns its master many a pound
Answer A fiddle.
12) What do the quickest way to cover the seat of a chair?
Answer. To sit on it.
13)The paired my head and shaved my face and brought me from my dwelling place will horses and valagued men the brought(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornacreeve, Co. Monaghan
