School: Aughaclay (roll number 13140)
- Location:
- Templemoyle, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Ó Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)A. Hailstones.
Q. What swims in the water and does not touch the water.
A. An egg in a duck.
Q. Why is "U" the funniest letter of the alphabet.
A. Because it is always in the middle of fun.
Q. A bonnog of bread and a sheetful of crumbs.
A. The moon and stars.
Q. As I went up a slippery way I met my uncle David. I took off his head and drank all his blood and left his body easy.
A. A bottle of wine.
Q. What smells most in a chemist shop.
A. The nose.
Q. I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and there are as many windows in it as whats in the kings house.
A. A thimble.
