School: Radharc na Mara (roll number 15424)
- Location:
- Rosses Lower, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Mhaolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)does'nt want it and he that wants it does'nt know
Ans. A coffin.
What is the lightest thing in the world
Ans. light
What comb is the sweetest.
Ans. The honeycomb.
Why is a dark boy always a cheat.
Ans. Because he's never fair.
What goes off yet stops in the same place.
Ans. A gun.
Why is there no difference between the sun and a sixpence?
Ans. because they are both tanners.
Patches upon patches and no stitches.
Ans. A head of cabbage.
What is the half of an orange most like?
Ans. The other half.
Up the road and down the road and I carried the road on my back.
Ans. A ladder.
What part of a car goes into the town first? Ans. The noise.
If I were in the sun and you out of it was what would the sun be.
Ans. Sin.
What is it that we ofen return but never borrow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen Haran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 10
