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School: Oldtown (roll number 7470)

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M. Ní Ruanaidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0787, Page 3

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    Q. What goes round and round a field and only makes one track.
    A. A wheel barrow.
    Q. What has no wings but can fly.
    A. Dust.
    Q. What has a head and cannot get a hat to fit it.
    A. Bray Head.
    Q. What goes round the field on its head.
    A. A nail in a man's boot.
    Q. Around the kitchen and sleeps in the corner at night.
    A. A brush.
    Q. What is it that has a head and no face.
    A. A match.
    Q. What is it that has ribs and no body.
    A. An umbrella.
    Q. When are herrings and tobacco alike.
    A. When they are being smoked.
    Q. Why is Ireland so much like a bottle.
    A. Because there is a cork in it.
    Q. If a man got sixpence for walking thirty miles, what would he get for walking a hundred miles.
    A. Sore feet.
    Q. Why is a drawn tooth like something you have forgotten.
    A. Because it is gone out of your head.
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