School: Kilmessan (B.) (roll number 4210)
- Location:
- Cill Mheasáin, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: Brian S. Pléimeann
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- (continued from previous page)a sheep
(91) Why do you go to bed?
Because the bed can't come to you.
(92) If it took a week to walk a fortnight how long would it take a fly with clogs to sink through a barrel of tar?
As long as he would be doing it.
(93) If a hen and a half laid an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many would she lay in a week?
Seven eggs.
(94) The lazy little woman; the hard-working man; twelve little black children nearly all the same?
A clock.
(95) What is it that goes under the water and over the water and everyone likes it? Tea.
(96) As high as a well as red as blood as sweet as honey.
An apple.
(97) As I walked in and I walked out(continues on next page)
