School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)

Location:
Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Elizabeth Benson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0014

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  1. (continued from previous page)
    Why is your nose like Vin civility?
    Because it is between two eyes.
    What is the last remedy for a smoky chimneys? Putting the fire out.
    What is the smallest bridge in the world
    The bridge of your nose.
    Two a's two R's two M's and A.G. put them together and spell them for me? Grammar.
    Black within black without nice things go in and nice things comes out. An oven.
    Its neither inside or outside and it shows light to a house. A window.
    What is the smallest room in the world
    A mushroom.
    What is it that is neither flesh nor bone but has four fingers and a thumb A glove.
    The man that made it did not use it and them and that used it did not know it.
    A coffin.
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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English