School: Cill Tártáin
- Location:
- Kiltartan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tuathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0033
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- 1. When is a watch hungry.
Ans. When it is going to eight o'clock.
2. What is it you wouldn't like to have and if you had it you wouldn't like to lose it?
Ans. A bald head.
3. What turns without moving?
Ans. Milk.
4. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it?
Ans. A Coffin.
5. Why does the hen pick the pot?
Ans. Because she can't lick it.
6. What part of a cow goes out the gap the first:
Ans. Her breath.
7. As I went out a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy. I cut off his head and left his body easy?
Ans. A head of cabbage.
8. As round as a rainbow and teeth like a cat and if you were guessing for ever you would never guess that?
Ans. A briar.
9. Two long legs, tow crooked thighs, a small head and no eyes?
Ans. A tongs.
10. Why is the letter J like an Island?(continues on next page)
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