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School: Ballinamore (B.) (roll number 2820)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Seán Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 251

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    299 Q. What's the difference between a nice girl and a soldier?
    A. The solider faces the powder and the girl powders the face.
    300 Q. What is that which you have seen and every living person has seen will never see again?
    A. Yesterday.
    301 Q. What is it you se twice a moment, once in a month and never in a thousand years?
    A. The letter n.
    302 Q. When do cooks appear angry?
    A. When they are whipping cream and beating eggs.
    303 Q. What do liars do when they die?
    A. They lie still.
    304 What kind of tables do we cook and eat?
    A Vegetables.
    305 Q. When is a baby like a cup and a saucer?
    A. When it is a-teething (a tea thing).
    306 Q. What is the difference between a tree and an aeroplane?
    A. One sheds its leaves, and the other leaves its shed.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tobie Harrisson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim