School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)

Location:
New Ross, Co. Wexford
Teachers:
Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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  1. What goes around the house all day and sleeps in the corner?
    Ans = A brush.
    What goes over the water and under the water and never tips the water.?
    Ans = A man walking across the bridge with a can of water on his head.
    What is the loudest thing in the world.?
    Ans = A Candle becuse it wakens the dead.
    What is the hardest thing in the world.?
    Ans = To shave the hair off a baldy mans head.
    What is the difference between one yard and two yards.?
    Ans = A fence.
    What walks around the town with his head down.?
    Ans = A nail in a mans boot.
    Why is a dog's tail like he middle of a tree.?
    Ans = Because it is the farthest away from the bark.
    Why is a butcher so dishonest.?
    Ans = Because he steels his knives.
    What is it the more you take out the bigger it gets.?
    Ans = A hole.
    When were there only two vowels.?
    Ans = In the time of Noah before you and I were born.
    When is a wall like a fish.?
    Ans = When it is scaled.
    Who was the first man to go round the world.?
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