School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: An tSr. Áthracht
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a monkey like a clockmaker?
Because they both make faces.What dies when it shrinks and lives when it eats? A fire.What is full yet holds more? A sponge.There is a cart. It can't go without this thing and it is no good to it?
The rattle or noise.What poet was never slow? Swift.What has a mouth but no face? A river.What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison?
One cannot see to go and the other cannot go to sea.Why is the letter "T" like Easter?
Because it comes at the end of Lent.What is the smallest bridge in the world? The bridge of your nose.I went to the wood and I got it.
I sat down to look for it.
And I brought it home because I could not find it. What's that? A thorn.What is it that you have seen and every living person has seen and will never see again? Yesterday.As round as an apple as deep as a cup
All the men in Derry would not lift it?
A spring well(continues on next page)
