School: Drumakill (roll number 6365)
- Location:
- Droim na Coille, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: Florence Harrison
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- Q. A jumper of ditches a clipper of thorns, a wee brown cow with a leather pair of hose.
A. A hare.
Q. What part of a tree is like a dog.
A. The bark.
Q. What grows in the Winter and dies in the Summer and grows with its head down.
A. An icicle.
Q. What can go up the chimney down, but cannot go down the chimney up.
A. An umbrella.
Q. What can run but cannot walk.
A. A water tap.
Q. It is not inside nor outside and it is on a stone wall drying.
A. A window.
Q. I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers and saw the dead burying the live.
A. A turf fire.
Q. What goes round and round the house and sleeps in the corner all night.
A. A sweeping brush.
Q. What is full and can hold more.(continues on next page)
