School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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- (continued from previous page)4. What is filled and can hold more? Answer = A pot of potatoes.
5. I can get it, and you can get it and God can never get it. Answer. A master
6. What does between two woods, and and comes home between two water
Answer = A man carrying pails of water.
7 Bridge on a lake without a stick or a stone. Answer = Ice.
8 I went up the road and down the road and I carried the road on my back. Answer - A ladder
9 As Iw ent out the boreen I met my Uncle Davie, I cut the head straight off him and left his boddy easy.
Answer - A head of Cabbage.
10 Its in the reiver its never drowned its in the bog its never cut, its in the shop its never sold. Answer - The sun.
11 Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? Answer = A cake in an oven.
12. What are the three hardest things got in the earth? Answers = A shoe to fit the foot of the mountain. A towel to wipe the face of the earth, and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.
13. What is the most useless thing a man could(continues on next page)
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