School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)
- Location:
- Derryoober West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan Mac Diarmuda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0338
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- 1. What is it that goes in dry, comes out wet and the linger it is in the sronger it gets>
Tea in a teapot.
2. What is it that changes without moving?
Milk.
3. Four little sisters long and tall one will not work without them all. Knitting needles.
4. What is the quickest way to get from Dover to France?
Cross out the "D" and get over at once.
5. What has a head and cant get a hat to fit?
Bray Head.
6. Why is a shoemaker's shop like hell?
Because it is full of bad soles.
7. What goes around the world and never leaves the one corner?
A stamp on a letter.
8. If a man falls from a house fifty feet high what would he fall against?
His will.
9. If a man got sixpence for walking a mile what would he get for waking three miles?
Sore feet.
10. I have a little man above in the filed when I pull his leg his nose will bleed.
A pump.
11. What man in Parliment wears the biggest hat. The man with the biggest head.
12. What stick does not grow in a wood?
a candle-stick.
- Collector
- Mary Tuohy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 16
- Address
- Slaghty, Co. Galway
