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School: Rush (B.) (roll number 7624)

Location:
Rush, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
Henry Moriarty
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0786, Page 8

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    1. Why does a hen pick a pot? (Because she cant lick it)
    2. What is the quickest way to cover a cushion? (Sit on it)
    3. What is it that has 15 heads 30 feet two wings an cannot fly? (A football team)
    4. Why is a wood so much like elephants? Because it has trunks
    5. What sort of ears have engines? Engineers
    6. Where do bad soles go to? the shoemaker
    7. What is the difference between a schoolmaster and a stamp? The stamps sticks with a lick and a master licks with a stick.
    8. What is it cast have and no other animal has? Kittens
    9. What is the difference between a child and a sailor? The sailor makes his bed on the ocean and a child makes its ocean in the bed.
    11. What goes down in the water, stays in it, come up, and say, "ching ching" A chain
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael White
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rush, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Joseph Smyth
    Gender
    Male