School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 033
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- (continued from previous page)7. When the cow jumped over the moon.8. The Pope never sees it. King or Queen seldom sees it, but we see it every day in the week?
8. Your own equal.9. A bus went down the road and in it there were two black birds and one white bird. The two black birds ate the white one. What was the number of the bus?
9. The number was 281 because two birds ate one bird.10. I have a cow. She is tied to the wall and she eats as much heather from here to Donegal?
10. A Fire.11.It grows in the wood, it sounds in the town and it earns for its master many a pound?
11. A fiddle.12. Why is "smiles" the longest word in the English Language?
12. Because there is a mile between the first and last letters.13. What goes away above the ground and returns under it?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
