School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)What nation does a criminal dread most?
(Answer):- Condemnation/
What would you fill a barrell with to make it lighter?
(Answer):- Holes
Why is milk like dancing?
(Answer):- Because it strengthens the calves.
Over the head, and under the hat, whats that.
(Answer):- The hair of the head.
Black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hailstones.
(Answer):- A magpie
How's that a cow looks over the ditch.
(Answer):- Because she can't look under it.
A long legged father and a big bellied mother, and three little children like one another. (Answer):- A pot.(continues on next page)
