School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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His breath.132. What's all eyes and cannot see.?
A crook.133. I have a little house and it would'nt hold a mouse, and there are as many windows in it as in the King's big house?
A thimble.134. What is seen in the shop and never is sold.?
The sun.135. What goes up the water, and never gets to the head of the water?
A mill wheel.136. How many feet have forty sheep, the shepherd and his dog?
Two.137. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the men in Derry could not lift it up.?
A well.138. Bible character, name unknown whose body never went to corruption, part of whose(continues on next page)
