School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- (continued from previous page)29. A man without eyes saw plums on a tree he neither took plums nor left plums and how could that be.
He had only one eye and you couldn't say he had eyes and there were only two plums on the tree and he took one and so you couldn't say he took plums and he only left one and so you couldn't say he left plums
30. Spell frozen water in the three letters
Ice
31. A duck swam down a river. She met a flock of ducks. "Good morrow hundred ducks" says she. "We are not a hundred ducks but if we had as many more twice that again half the first number and you (and you) we would be then a hundred ducks". How many were there first?
Twenty two
32. How man sides has a pot.
Two.
33. What is deeper than the sea.
A Tailor's thimble.
34. Empty at night and full in the day.
Your shoes.
35. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan on one side a woman and on the other side man.
A penny.
36. The man that made it meant to sell it, the man that bought it never wore it, and the man that wore it never seen it.(continues on next page)
