School: Araglin (C.), Cill Úird (roll number 9248)
- Location:
- Araglin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0377, Page 115
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- (continued from previous page)The bark of a tree.
What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
Carpet.
What goes up and down, wears many boots out yet it never had a boot?
A football.
What walks with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
What stands on one leg and has its heart in its head?
A head of cabbage.
Spell haggard scraper in three letters?
Hen.
What is the greatest wonder in Europe?
That Hungry did not eat Turkey.
If a farmer raises ten acres of wheat in fine weather what will he raise in wet weather?
His umbrella.
Constantinople is a hard word to spell, but if you cannot spell it you are a dunce?
It.
Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me that without a K.?
That.
The man who made it never wore it and(continues on next page)
