School: Cill Mhic Dhuach (roll number 6610)
- Location:
- Kilmacduagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Cathail
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- (continued from previous page)It's in a church and not in a steeple, it's in the minister and not in the people, it's in the rock and not in the stone, it's in the marrow but not in the bone? The letter "R".
Two little men standing on a hill they're going and they're going but they're standing still ! Two lighting candles.
When is a man not a man ? When he falls into a river and comes out "dripping".
When is a horse not a horse? when he is turned into a field
What part of the car goes into the town first ? the noise
Why is a dead horse like a narrow boreen? Because he has no breath.
Which is it the hen or the egg that came into the world first? the hen
