School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 181
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- 1) Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you will never guess that? A pipe
2) What is it that can go up the chimney down and can't come down the chimney up? An umbrella.
3) Why is letter F like a banana skin? Because both make all fall.
4) Why did the penny stamp? Because the threepenny bit.
5) Why is a stamp like a school-master? Because one sticks with a lick and the other licks with a stick.
6) What goes round the wood and round the wood and never gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.
7) One half dead the other half living and a tail wagging? A dog with his head in a pot.
8) As black as ink and ink it isn't, as white as milk and milk it isn't and hops on the road like hailstones. A magpie.
- Collector
- Conchobhar Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
