School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 273
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12. What is that which is often found where it is not.
Fault.
13. Where did you go on your twelfth birthday.
Into your thirteenth.
14. What has ears and cannot hear.
Corn.
15. One what side of a cup is the handle.
On the outside.
16. What is too much for one, enough for two and nothing for three.
A Secret.
17. Why is a horse like a lump of ice
Because the more you lick it the faster it goes.
18. What belongs to yourself, and is used by every body more than yourself.
Your name.
19. It goes with a car, it i made by a car, and still its of no use to the car.
Noise.
20. In which month do ladies talk least.
February, because it is the shortest.
21. What is that which ties two persons together, and only touches one. (A wedding Ring
- Collector
- Mary Hickey
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Gortnaglogh, Co. Kerry
