School: Cill na Móna (C.) (roll number 13626)
- Location:
- Cill na Móna, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Síle Céitinn
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“Years ago there were a man and his wife living in Kilnamona...”
(continued from previous page)agradh, I am getting great pains. What are they like said Biddy,it must be young ducks for the duck eggs were hatching two weeks weeks before I cooked them. They commenced bickering, and the priest had to send them home,James had to get the doctor to take the the ducks out of him.- Tomhaiseanna
1 a head,a foot,and four legs?
2 A house full and a room full and you could not take a spon ful?
Ans-Smoke
3 The more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
Ans- A hole
4 It is white,and red ,and green the King could not reach ,no more than the Queen?
Ans- The rainbow.
5 Why does it not matter if a beggar wears a very short coat?
Ans-Because it will be long enough until he gets another one.
6 Who was the first whistler.
Ans -The wind.
7 One half dead ,the other half living ,and a tail wagging.
Ans- A dog with his head in a pot.(continues on next page)