School: Cluain Uamha (C.) (roll number 12828)
- Location:
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Geeleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 243
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- Quest If a man got sixpence for walking a mile what would he get for walking 30 miles?
Ans Sore feet
Quest Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
Ans A cake in an oven
Quest As I went up a steeple I met three Christian people. They were neither men women nor children. What were they
Ans A man, woman, and child?
Quest What teeth never bite?
Ans The teeth of a comb
Quest What flies high, flies low, has no feet, and yet wears shoes out?
Ans Dust
Quest Father and mother, sister and brother running all day and can't catch up to each other?
Ans The wheels of a motor-car
Quest Long and narrow, thin and tall, and many a man it caused to fall?
Ans A gun
Quest Ink, ank, under the bank, then drawing four?
Ans A woman milking a cow
Quest What walks on its head all day?
Ans A stud in your boot
Quest What has an eye and cannot see?
Ans A potato(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Lane
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
