School: Rahan (roll number 9096)
- Location:
- Rahan, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholmáin
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- What is it that eats all it gets and dies when it drinks?
Ans A fire
If a fellow met a fellow in a fellow's field if a fellow asked a fellow what a fellow means how many f in that?
Ans There is no f in that
Under water over water but never touches water?
Ans A woman carrying a bucket of water on her head and crossing a bridge with water flowing underneath
Under fire over fire and never touches fire?
Ans A cake in an oven. - bastible
Twenty sick (six) sheep went out a gap - one died - how many came back?
Ans Ninteen
Long legged father big bellied mother three black sons and a rosy daughter?
Ans Crane, pot, three legs of the pot, fire
Where does the smallest and most beautiful tree in the world grow.?
Ans In the ground
Two rows of white cows and a red cow in the middle?
Ans Teeth and tongue
What part of the cow goes over the ditch first?
Ans Its breath
- Collector
- Bridie White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mallow, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick White
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fiddane North, Co. Cork
