School: Doire Gualann (roll number 14979)
- Location:
- Derrygoolin North, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Tórpaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0330
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- 1. As I looked out my Gago window
I lost my Gago Ring
I saw the dead carrying the live
wasn't that a wonderful thing?
Answer: a bicycle, motor or train.
2. Why did Sir Francis Drake wear green suspenders.
Answer: - To keep up his breeches.
3. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan one half a woman and the other a man.
Answer: - A penny
4. What is deeper than the sea?
Answer: - A tailor's thimble
5. Twenty-four cows tied in a stable, out comes the red cow and liks them all.
Answer: - Your teeth.
6. Where was Moses when the light was put out.
Answer: - In the dark.
7. Why does a hen pick the pot?
Answer: - Because she cannot lick it.
8. Hairy in, hairy out, hairy into hairy's mouth
Answer: - A man putting on his sock.(continues on next page)
