School: Gráig (2) (roll number 3402)
- Location:
- Graigueadrisly, Co. Laois
- Teacher: M. Ní Laighean
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- (continued from previous page)Q: What is it that is black and white and read all over?
A: A paper.
Q: What is it that nothing is and yet it has a name it joins us in our walks and plays at every game?
A: A shadow.
Q: How many feet have forty sheep the shepherd and his dog?
A: Two feet.
Q: As I went up the hill of wonder I met a very big plunder, forty little blackbirds and they tearing the hill asunder.
A: A Harrow.
Q: I washed my hands in water that never rose or sprung and dried them in a towel that was never wove or spun?
A:I washed them in dew and dried them in the sun.
Q: Four legs up, four legs down, soft in(continues on next page)
