School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)

Location:
Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Catháin
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  1. If my mother sent to your mother for a tub without a bottom to hold flesh and blood?
    A thimble.
    If a farmer put up ten stacks of corn in a good year what would he put up in a bad year?
    An Umbrella.
    Twenty white cows tied to a wall out comes a red one and licks them all? Your teeth and tongue.
    What walks on its head?
    A nail in your boot.
    As I went in a slippy slap I met my uncle Davit, a stick in his hand, a stone in his middle?
    A haw.
    Little Nancy Eticoat in a white peticoat the longer she stands the shorter she grows?
    A candle.
    What is taken to the table, cut but never eaten?
    A pack of cards
    What smells most in a chemists shop?
    Your nose
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