School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 243
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- 1. What causes many a silent tear?. An onion.
2. A barn full, and a byre full, and I could not get a dishful.?. Smoke.
3. When you wear your coat out, what do you do?. You wear it in again.
4. Wee Jennie Huddle, she sits in a puddle, the longer she sits, the shorter she grows?. A candle.
5. Why is an old maid like a bad lemon?.
Because neither of them is worth a squeeze.
6. When is a farmer so cruel.?. When he threshes his corn.
7. What gets wet with drying?. A towel.
8. On what side of a jug is the handle.?. Outside.
9. A little thatched brown house, white house, and a milk house.?. A coconut.
10. Why does a donkey eat thistles.?. Because it's an ass.
11. How does a donkey sleep?. With his eyes shut.
12. What does a stone become in water.?. Wet.
13. What makes a pair of boots.?. Two.
14. What mistake does the bride make? She never marries the best man.
15. What goes away between two woods, and comes home between two waters?. A woman going to the well with two wooden buckets for water.(continues on next page)
