School: Bailieboro (C.)
- Location:
- Coill an Chollaigh, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)14 What has a big mouth and cannot eat, two ears and cannot hear, three legs and cannot walk?
A skillet (three legged pot)
15 What is the thing that stands on one leg with its head in its head?
A head of cabbage
16 What is cut on the table and never eaten?
A pack of cards.
17 What is the greatest wonder on the map of Europe?
That Hungary doesn't eat Turkey.
18 What is it that asks no questions and requires many answers?
The door bell.
19 Black and white and read all over?
The newspapers
20 What goes under the water and over the water and never touches the water?
An egg in a duck.
21 "It opens like a barn shuts like a trap
Many a thing you'll think of before you think of that"? An umbrella(continues on next page)
