School: Cloran (roll number 5282)
- Location:
- Cloran and Corcullentry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Síle Flynn
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- 4. What is the most in a windows
Corners.
5. First I'm wet and dirty,
Next I'm clean and dry
Then I'm red and rosy,
And if you would touch me you would cry?
A coal of fire.
6. What is the difference between a white horn in summer and a young Irishman after landing in America?
One is green thorn the other and the other is green horn.
7. There were four people in a room. There was a father and mother, sister and brother, uncle and aunt an two first cousins. Howis that?
The father and mother were a "sister and brother. The two first cousins were their children.
8. What weight is the moon?
One hundredweight.
9. Round the house an round the house and never touches a bit of the house?
A nail in a man's boot.
10. Round the house and round the house and drags a harrow after it?
A hen and a clutch of chickens.
