School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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- (continued from previous page)place. L.117. If a herring an a half cost three halfpennies, what would a dozen cost?
A shilling.118. As round as an apple has plump as a ball, covers the market house steeple and all.?
The sun119. What never was, and never will be, look on your hand and that you'll see.?
Your wee finger as long as the rest120. As I went to the fair of St Ives, I met seven men with seven wives, the seven men wives had seven sacks, the seven sacks had seven cats, the seven cats had seven kits. between cats and kits and sacks and wives, how many went to the fair of St Ives.?
One121. What is all holes, and it holds water?
A thimble.122. What touches one and unites two?
Wedding ring.123. Once day a white man and two black men went a journey and two black men ate the white man, what was the number of their car?
281.124. What sits with its heart up?
A Cabbage.125. A clipper of ditches, a skipper of thorns?
A hare.126. Why am I a better man than God?
Because I can find a better man than myself and God can't.(continues on next page)
