School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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- (continued from previous page)can get them unless he permits them, A dog and a soldier are supposed to be guarding it.
- Q: I have a little daughter she has a red nose, the longer she lives the shorter she grows?
A: A Candle,
Q: As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the king's horses couldn't pull it up?
A: A draw-well.
Q: I have a little red heifer she lies by the wall, she eats all she gets and drinks nothing at all?
A: The fire.
Q: Fire over fire under and never touches it?
A: A cake in a baker.
Q; Two dogs went over a ditch one dog's name was Dot what's the other dog's name?
A: What.
Q: Twenty sick sheep went out in a gap one died and how many came back?
A: Nineteen.
