School: Ceis (roll number 15342)
- Location:
- Kesh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Hainín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0186, Page 330
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- (continued from previous page)(57) Question = If seven coats of paints went on the Queen Mary which of them went on the first?
Answer = The second.
(58) Question = Goes in dry comes out wet the longer it's left the stronger it gets?
Answer = When you make tea.
(59) Question = What tree satisfies hunger?
Answer = The pantry (pan-tree)
(60) Question = What tongue is always silent?
Answer = The tongue of a shoe.
(61) Question = Why must a poor man drink coffeee?
Answer = Because he has no property? (proper tea)
(62) Question = A fiddler in Dublin has a brother a fiddler in Cork but the fiddler in Cork has no brother a fiddler in Dublin?
Answer = He had a Sister?
(63) Question = Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire?
Answer = A cake in an oven.
(64) Question - A leaper, a jumper, a jumper of(continues on next page)
