School: Gurteen, Durrow (roll number 7652)
- Location:
- An Goirtín, Co. Laoise
- Teacher: Ss. de Buitléir
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- (continued from previous page)his right foot?
His right leg.
What wears boots and still has none?
A football?
As I went out in the garden I met my uncle Rory I cut of his head and drank his blood and left his body easy
A bottle of wine
What is the best way to cover the seat of a chair?
To sit on it
What is it that goes around the house by day and stands in the corner at night?
A brush.
- There was a doctor one time staying in a hotel. He slept in the same room with two old men. During the night the doctor got a sick call. He dressed himself hastily. Arriving at the place, he found an old man very ill and his wife an old woman, sitting by the side of his bed. On examining the patient he told the old woman the sick man would recover if he got plenty of nourishment. She(continues on next page)
