School: Scoil na mBráthar (roll number 16741)
- Location:
- Ros Mhic Thriúin, Co. Loch Garman
- Teachers: Aindrias Ó Caoilte Br Ó Cinnéide
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Ans = By looking at a watch.What policeman has the biggest cap-fit?
The man with the biggest head.Why is a butcher so dishonest?
Ans = Because he steels his knivesWhat is a thing half living and half dead?
Ans = A dog with his head in a pot and cannot get it out.Where was the first nail struck?
Ans = On the head.A red cap and a mouth of horn such a man was never born what is that?
Ans = A cockWhen is a wall like a fish?
Ans = When it is scaledWho was the first man to go round the world?
Ans= The man in the moon.
