School: Móta Ghráinne Óige

Location:
Woodlawn, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Eibhlís Ní Innse
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    63. I have a little house and a mouse would not fit it and all the men in Derry would not count all the windows in it?
    A thimble.
    64. I shake with fear when cats are near. Yet like a cat in every house I am to be found?
    A mouse.
    65. If a farmer can raise a hundred bushels of wheat a fine day. What can he raise on a wet day?
    Umbrella.
    66. Twenty sheep went out the gap twenty more followed that after came the Shepherd and his dog how many feet went out the gap?
    Two feet.
    67. As round as an apple as flat as a pan the half of a woman the whole of a man?
    A penny.
    68. A man without eyes he saw apples on a tree he took no apples off it or no apples left on it did he?
    He had only one eye and there was only one apple on the tree.
    69. Two ducks before a duck two ducks behind
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