School: Cohaw (C )
- Location:
- Cohaw, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ní Aodha
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- (continued from previous page)A head of cabbage.
(10) If a brick weigh's a pound and a half what will a brick and a half weigh.?
Three pounds.
(11) What is it, that has neither flesh nor bone, yet it has four fingers and a thumb.?
A glove.
(12) As round as an apple as plumb as a ball can climb the Church over steeple and all.?
The sun.
(13) What goes up the stairs and its head down.?
A stud in a man's boot.
(14) A Head without hair, teeth without lips, a long tail and no hips.?
The rake.
(15) Pink pank down you bank ten about four.?
A person milking a cow.
(16) Why does a hen pick a pot.?
Because she cant lick it.
(17) What eats in the wood and stands outside of it.?
A pig eating out of a trough.
(18) What is it that goes round the world and peeps into every hole and corner.?
The sun.
(19) What is the smallest bridge in the world.?
The bridge of your nsoe
