School: Baile 'n Tóchair (roll number 2013)
- Location:
- Ballintogher, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Conn Ó Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0178, Page 379
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- 1. Mr. Bigger, Mrs. Bigger, and Baby Bigger. Which of them all was the biggest?
Ans. Baby Bigger because he was a little bigger.
2. What is it that gives a cold, cures a cold and pays the Doctors bills?
Ans. A "draft" Draught.
3. A leaper a ditches, a clipper a thorns, a little known cow with two leather horns?
Ans. A Hare
4. What two towns in Scotland will make a tune?
Ans. Fife and Ayr.
5. Everything has it and so has a needle?
Ans. A name.
6. What is the easiest thing in the world to break?
Ans. Silence.
7. What town in Ireland will fit in a bottle?
Ans. Cork.
8. Why is Paris like the letter F?
Ans. Because it is the capital of France.
9. Why is a hat like a king?
Ans. Because it has a crown.
- Collector
- Máighréad Ní Fhallamhain
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tiratick, Co. Sligo
