School: Cros-Bhóthar (roll number 14688)
- Location:
- Pollacorragune, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Maoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0039, Page 0015
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- 1. I have a little house and it is made of wood and wire.
A Cage
2. A line in the two ends and dead in the middle.
A man ploughing.
3.The man that made it never wore it
The man that wore it never saw it.
A Coffin
4. What is like half of a moon.
The other half.
5. What comes after cheese.
Mice.
6. A bridge on river without a stick or a stone.
Ice.
7. Why did Adam bit the apple Eve gave him.
Because he had no knife to cut it.
8. When many a man's pocket it empty, yet there is something in it. When there is a hole in it.
9. When is a man out of date.
When he is a weak back.
10. Why do we buy gloves?
Because we cannot get them for nothing.
11. Why is a hen on a fence like a penny?
Because there is a head on one side and a tail on the other.
12. Why is there not a moment that we cannot call our own. Because minutes are not hours.(continues on next page)
