School: Knockconan (roll number 15654)
- Location:
- Knockconan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Gabhann
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- What room has no door?
Answer; Mushroom.
What is full in the daytime and, empty at night? Answer; Shoes.
What goes round and, round the field in the daytime and, lies in the corner at night?
Answer; A pair of shoes.
What flies, drops low, wears shoes and has none?
Answer; A football.
What is the strongest thing in the world?
Answer; A snail, because it can carry it's house on it's back.
What turns and never moves?
Answer; A crock of cream.
What grows in the wood and, sounds in the town and earns it's master many a pound?
Answer; A fiddle
What bears and, never blossoms?
Answer; The crook.
Long legs, short thighs, little head and, no eyes?
Answer; The tongs.
Why do you go to bed?
Answer; Because the bed does not go to you.
- Collector
- Jocie Mc Avin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Elvey, Co. Monaghan
