School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc
- Location:
- Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. Emerentia
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Answer: A kettle.
Why is a cricketer a coward?
Answer: When he hits he runs.
Why is a racehorse like a stick of toffee?
Answer: The more you lick it the quicker it goes.
In a field there is a house, in a house there is a press, in a press there is a cup and in a cup there is a sup and everyone must taste it?
Answer: Death.
There was a girl in our town silk an satin was her gown, silk an satin, gold an' velvet guess her name - three times I have told it.
Answer: Ann
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