School: Cor na Péiste
- Location:
- Cornapaste, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Théinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 219
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- (continued from previous page)19. Which two notes of the musical scale would you prefer if you were tired?
(Soh - fah - Sofa).20. Chips-chips-cherry all the men in Derry couldn't climb up Chip-chip-cherry?
(Smoke).21. A leaper of ditches, a cropper of thorns, an wee brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
(A hare).22. As round as an apple, as sharp as a lance. If you sat on it, it would carry you to France?
(The moon).23. I have a little sister, she has but one eye, she'd climb the sky were it ever so high, and wade the sea were it ever so deep?
(The moon)24. If a chicken could swear, what language would it be?
(Fowl language)25. What is it that every living person has seen & never will see again?
(Yesterday).26. Where was Nelson going in his 39th year?
(Into his fortieth).27. Why does a hen pick a pot?
(Because she can't like it).28. What goes up and down but never moves?
(The road).29. Opens like a barn door, shuts like a trap. You can guess for 40 years but you'll never guess that?
(An umbrella).(continues on next page)
