School: Muclach
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)red nose, the longer it lives the shorter grows?
Answer - Candle.
What is the reason we go to bed?
Answer - Because the bed won't come to us.
Around the house, around the house, and sleeps in the corner at night?
Answer - A brush.
What makes a pair of shoes?
Answer - Every two.
White and black and read all over?
Answer - A newspaper.
Under the water and over the water and can be seen in the water?
Answer - The sky.
Why does a hen cross the road?
Answer - Because she wants to get over to the other side.
Put a bit to it, and you would make it shorter and take a bite from it and you would make it longer?
Answer - A grave.Collected by: Lily White, Cloonagh, Tullamore
- Collector
- Lily White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonagh East, Co. Offaly
