School: An Bealach, Crosaire an Ghúlaigh (roll number 1131)

Location:
An Bealach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
Teacher:
Diarmuid Mac Fhloinn
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  2. What is it that has three feet and no legs?
    Ans: - A yard
    Lazy father, lazy mother twelve little children and they all the one colour?
    Ans: - A clock.
    Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that. Then a shepherd and his dog; how many feet was that?
    Ans: - Two
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  3. (6) I have a little house that a mouse would not fit in and all the men in Londonderry would not count all the windows in it.
    Ans: - A thimble.
    (7) What is full in the day and empty at
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