School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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- Question What makes a dog go round in his bed?
Answer. Because he does not know the head or foot of itQuestion What makes a cow look over the hill?
Answer. Because she cannot look through it.
Q. What works all day with its head down?
A. The nail of a shoe.Q. Long legs, short thighs, a round head and no eyes.
A. The Tongs.
- Question Why does a hen pick at the pot-stick?
Answer Because she can't lick it. Question What has teeth that doesn't eat with them?
Answer A CombQ. What works all day and sleeps in its own dirt at night
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