School: Móin Ruadh, Knocktopher
- Location:
- Moanroe Commons, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0849, Page 240
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- (1) 'Little Red Nancy with a little red nose the longer she stands the quicker she goes?
Ans = a candle.(2) 'As I went out in a slippery gap I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and left his body easy?
Ans = a head of cabbage.(3) 'Twenty sick sheep went out in a gap one fell dead and how many came back?
Ans = nineteen(4) 'Why does a hen pick a pot?
Ans = because she couldn't lick it.(5) 'Forty sheep went out in a gap twenty white and twenty black a shepherd with his dog. How many feet was that?
Ans = two.(6) 'What part of the cow goes out in the gap first.
Ans = Her breath.(7) 'It went to America it stopped there it came home because it wouldn't go there?
Ans = A watch.(8) 'How many cows tails would stretch a mile?
Ans = one if it was long enough.(9) 'Elizabeth, Betty and Bess went over the river to seek a birds nest, if there were five eggs in the nest and they got one each. How many were left?
Ans = four.(continues on next page)
