School: Tarmon (roll number 13997)
- Location:
- Tarmon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Layden
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 196
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1. What lives in Winter and dies in summer?
An icicle
2. How would you compare a sailor in jail to a blind man?
The sailor cannot go to sea and the blind man cannot see to go.
3. What is the best way to make a coat last?
Make the trousers and waistcoat first.
4. Why is it impossible for a butcher to be honest?
Because he steels the knives he uses.
5. If a man is carrying two lamps and leaves down one what is he then?
A lamplighter.
6. What did the man that stole the calender get?
Twelve months.
7. Why is a bad picture like weak tea?
Because it is not well drawn.
8. Why is a hotel watier like a race-horse?
Becasue he runs for plates.
9. What smells most in the chemists shop?
The nose.(continues on next page)
