School: An t-Éadan Mór
- Location:
- Edenmore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Mac Philib
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- (continued from previous page)Snow.
9. What goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into it?
The bark of a tree.
10. What is full and holds more?
A pot full of potatoes.
11. What goes up the chimney down and wont go down the chimney up?
An umbrella
12. Chip, Chip Cherry all the men of Derry could not climb Chip Chip Cherry?
Smoke
13. A barnful of byreful and could not get a spoonful?
Smoke.
14. Two arms two tails a neck and no head.
A Shirt.
15. Why does a hen cross the road?
Because she cannot go under it.
16. A herring and a half for 1 1/2d how many would you get for 11d?
Eleven.
17. A. employed more than ten and less than twenty men and 30/1 paid the men. How many men did he employ and how much did each get?(continues on next page)
