School: Fothanach (roll number 7980)
- Location:
- Fohanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Conghaile
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- (continued from previous page)9. As I opened my Christmas box I found my uncle Thady. I pulled off his head, drank his blood and left his body easy.
Answer: A bottle of porter.
10. Two brothers we are great burdens we bear by which bitterly pressed the truth I declare. We are full all the day and empty when we go to rest.
Answer: A pair of boots.
11. It grows in the wood, it sounds in the town and it earns its master many a pound.
Answer: A fiddle.
12. As I went out a guttery gap I met a horse with traces, a hundred needles on his back and he ready for the races.
Answer: A Hedgehog.
13. A little round house and it is full of meat but has no doors or windows to let me in to eat.
Answer: An egg.
14. Little White Maggie has a red nose the longer she lives the shorter she grows.
15. As black as ink and ink it isn't; as white as milk and milk it isn't and it hops on the road like hailstones.
Answer: A magpie.
16. What is it that is smaller than a mouse and has more windows than King George's big house?
Answer: A thimble.(continues on next page)