School: Bennekerry, Carlow

Location:
Binn an Choire, Co. Cheatharlach
Teacher:
Liam Ó hAodha
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  1. What has a leg and cannot walk and an eye and cannot see?
    Ans: A needle.
    Black I am, though much admired, men and horses I have two, they broke my head and broke my face, and took me from my dwelling place:
    Ans: Coal.
    What goes round the wood and never touches the wood?
    Ans: A bark of a tree.
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