School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 453
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- Q. What part of the cow goes over the ditch first
A. Her breath.
Q. What turns without ever moving.
A. Milk.
Q. Black and white and it hops on the road like hail stone.
A. A magpie.
Q. As light as a feather
Q. What has a mouth and no tongue.
A. A river.
Q. What is it that has four legs and only one foot.
A. A bed.
Q. Over the fire and under the fire and never touches the fire.
A. A cake in an oven.
Q. What is it the older it gets the smaller it grows.
A. A candle.
Q. I have a little house and a mouse could not fit in it and all the men in town could no count the windows in it.
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