School: Mount Plunkett (roll number 8096)
- Location:
- Mountplunkett, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0265, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)(A Clock).
6. What goes with the train, and its no good to the train, but still the train cannot go without it.
(Noise).
7. What part of a cow goes out the gap first.
(her breath).
8. What is the first thing a hen does after scraping.
(She sets back).
9. What is rounder than a ring,
What is higher than a tree,
What is worse than woman kind or
deeper than the sea.
("Globe," "sky," "devil," hell).(continues on next page)
