School: An Mhaing
- Location:
- Muingatlaunlush, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Christine Nic Gearaild
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- A man without eyes saw apples on a tree. He took no apples or left no apples and how could that be?
A man with one eye saw two apples on a tree he took one and left one.It went to America and stopped there came home and didn't go at all?
A watch.What spins yet makes no thread or cloth?
A top.Flies high flies low wears shoes and havent any
A football.If you saw twenty one mice running along the top of a wall what time is it supposed to be?
Twenty after one.What is the three sevenths of a chicken two thirds of a cat and half a goat?
Chicago.What is it the longer it lives the shorter it grows?
A candle.What is the highest county?
Cork.A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in Dublin and the fiddler in Dublin had no brother a fiddler in Cork?
The fiddler in Cork was a girl.What is it that is no good to it and(continues on next page)
