School: Rennies, Cionn tSáile (roll number 4443)
- Location:
- Ballynalougha, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Hailín
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- "What goes from house to house without moving?"
The road.
"How would you make an empty barrel light?"
By putting holes in it.
"Why do you go to bed?"
"Because the bed won't come to you."
"How many sticks go to make a crow's nest?"
"No stick." The crow takes them.
"Where was the first school built in Ireland?"
"On the ground."
"What country could you see on the top of a candle?"
Greece.
"When you go over a ditch, what part of you goes first?"
Your Breath.
"Two brothers are we; have been working all the day, and empty we go to rest?"
"Our two shoes."
"A donkey tied to a rope seven yards away from a tub of(continues on next page)
