School: Bellanagare (roll number 2968)
- Location:
- Bellanagare, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Seán Mac Dochair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0244, Page 112
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- Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Roscommon, Ulster needs it still, it is in every mountain but not it every hill, it is in every timber but not in every tree, I'll give you fifty guinies if you riddle that for me
Answer. The letter M.
The beginning of eternity, the end of time and space, the beginning of every end and the end of every face?
Ans. The letter E.
It has neither flesh, fish nor bone and yet it has five fingers?
Ans. A glove.
What get wet when drying? Ans. A Towel
It gaco in dry, it comes out wet, and the longer its wet the stronger it gets?
Ans. Tea.
Two black men and a white man were out motoring, the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car?
Ans. 2.81.
What letter in the alphabet contains the most heat?
Ans. B. because it makes oil boil.
What four letters would frighten a thief?
Ans. O.I.C.U.
Why is a train driver like a school master?
Ans. One minds the train, the other trains the mind
What flies without wings. Ans. Time
- Collector
- Eileen Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Terence Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Drummin, Co. Roscommon
