School: Loch Rois (roll number 1751)
- Location:
- Loughros, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Stiofán Ó Braonáin
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- (continued from previous page)56. What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?
Its time to get the clock repaired.57. I have a wee house and it would not hold a mouse. Theres so many windows on it as on Lord French's house? Ans= A Timble
58. What is the smallest room in the world? A mus[?]59. What's the first thing you do when you go to bed?
You spoil it.
60. What goes up the ladder with its head down?
A nail in a man's shoe.
61. How many steps in Jacobs Ladder?
Three! Faith, Hope, Charity
62. What in through the wood and never touches it?
A knife in a man's po[?]
62. Cut in the wood, sounds in the town and earns his master many a pound?
A Fiddle.
