School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (roll number 11855)

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Buttevant, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSiúr Bríd
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  1. What is it that has an eye but cannot see? A needle.
    What is it that has feet but cannot walk? A bed.
    What is it that has teeth but cannot eat? A comb.
    Two rows of white cows and one red one in the middle? Your teeth and tongue.
    I have a little sister who sits by the wall she will eat all I give her but drink none at all? A fire.
    Under fire over fire and never touches the fire? A cake in a bastable.
    What is it that I can see, you cannot see, yet it is nearer to you than it is to me? Your poll.
    If a man went down the town with twenty patches in his trousers, what time would it be? Time to get a new one.
    What do you always leave behind you? Footprints.
    What has a bed and cannot sleep? A river.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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