School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- New Ross, Co. Wexford
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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- (continued from previous page)Ans = The man in the moon.When is a rock not a rock.?
Ans = When it is a shamrock.Long and narrow thin and tall many a man caused to fall.?
Ans = A gun.What is that if you name it you break it.?
Ans = Silence.As I went up a slippery gap I met a fellow with a red cap he was more afraid of the cock and hen than he was of the King and all his men.?
Ans = A worm.What is a thing that has nose and eyes and mouth and yet it cant talk, hear, or see.?
Ans = A pump.A little white and round house and its full of meat, but it has no windows or doors to let me in to eat.
Ans = An egg.A hard working father, a wee lazy mother, twelve little children all like one another.?
Ans = A clock.Why is a baker a silly man.?
Ans = because he sells all he kneads.How do you keep fish from smelling.?
Ans = Cut off their noses.When is a clock hungry.?
Ans = When it comes around to eight.(continues on next page)
