School: Ruadhán
- Location:
- Ruan, Co. Clare
- Teachers: Seán Ó Liadhráin Bríd Ní Dhíomáin
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- (continued from previous page)A mare's shoe.XII
Say it and you will destroy it?
SilenceXIII
What weight is the moon?
A hundred weight, four quarters.XIIII
What is it the goes about the wood and cannot get into the wood?
The bark of a tree.XV
Not an artist people say say yet he draws things all day?
A horseWhat is the difference between a jeweller and a jailer?
One sells watches, and the other watches cells.XVI
What is the hardest key to turn?
A donkey.XVII
What is the greatest wonder in the map of Europe?
That Hungary did not eat turkey.XVIII
If a man had forty patches in his breeches what time would it be?
Time to get a new one.
