School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 395
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- (continued from previous page)What has a head and no face.
Answer = A match
9. The marble hall as white as milk, all lined with skin as soft as silk. within its fountain crystal clear lays a golden apple, there is no door there, yet robbers break in.
Answer = An egg.
10. How many beaks does a hen strike on the ground when she is eating ten grains of oats?.
Answer = One beak.
11. What has a head and no face. Answer = A match.
12. What has a face and no head. Answer : A clock
13. Round the wood round the and never gets into the wood.
Answer = A bark of a tree.
- 1. What is always behind time.?
Answer = The back of the clock.
2. Why is the letter f like death.?
Answer = It makes all fall.
3. What is the more you take out of it(continues on next page) - Collector
- May Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
