School: Cornanure (roll number 8923)
- Location:
- Cornanure, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0951, Page 039
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- (continued from previous page)What goes round and round the wood and never goes into the wood?
Ans = The bark of a tree.What is cut but never eaten?
Ans = A pack of cards?Why does a hen pick a pot?
Ans = Because she cant lick it.four legs up and four legs down soft in the middle and hard all round?Ans = A bed.Black and white and read all over?
Ans = An newspaper.What always follows a mouse?
Ans = Its tail.What goes from house to house and sleeps out all night?
Ans = A path.What goes round and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
Ans - A brush.What has an eye but cannot see?
Ans = An needle.What goes up the ladder with its head down?
Ans = A nail in a man's boot.What part of a cow goes into the byre first.(continues on next page)
