School: Knockconan (roll number 15654)
- Location:
- Cnoc Coinín, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: P. Mac Gabhann
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- How is it a man with one eye can see more than a man with two eyes?
Answer; Because the man with one eye can see the other man's two, and the man with two eye's can only see the other man's one.As I looked over a garden wall I heard I heard great call. Its head was beef and its mouth was horn such a man was never born.
Answer; A cock crowingThe dead eat it and if the living would eat it they would die?
Answer; Nothing.One day a man went out to view the sky and he had no eyes. He came to an apple tree with apples on it. He took no apples off it nor he left no apples on it.
Answer; The man had one eye. He took one apple of it and he left one apple on it.What is the shinest thing in the house?
Answer; A clock.As round as an O as flat as a pan one half a woman and the other a man?
Answer; A penny.Why is the letter H like the cure for deafness?
Answer; Because it makes ears hear.What is the warmest thing in the house?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Treanor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An tEanach, Co. Mhuineacháin
