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School: Cnoc na Sná (B.), Mainistir na Féile (roll number 12368)

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Cnoc na Sionnach, Co. Luimnigh
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Dáithí Ó Conchobhair
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    (1) What is the longest word in the English language?
    Smiles there is a mile between the first and last letter

    2 What letter changes a biped into a drinking vessel?
    G it makes a glass of a lass.
    3. I am pushed about all day , and yet I never drop. I am in everbody's way and yet neer I stop. My four arms each day point in every way and my head is screwed on at the top. What am I?
    Turnstile
    4. What's as crooked as a river?
    Its banks.
    5 What is the difference between a school teacher and a Post office clerk?
    One licks with a stick and the other sticks with a lick.
    6. If 9 horses draw each two of turf daily, at 9s a load what will it all come to in the end of the year?
    Ashes.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. seánra
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Nash
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    7. What has a head and no face?
    A Match
    8 What has a face and no head ?
    A watch.
    9. What is it that never asks questions yet requires many answers?
    A door-bell.
    10. Why does a person go to bed?
    Because the bed wont come to him.
    11. What has a head, a foot and four legs?
    A bed
    12. What never goes long without winding?
    A Clock
    13. Why does the hen peck the pot?
    Because she cant lick it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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