School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 247
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- (continued from previous page)46. When is a clock on the stairs dangerous? When it runs down and stricks one.
47. How does a stove feel when full? Grateful.
48. Humpty Dumty sat on a wall, humpty had a great fall, all the king's horses, and all his men could not put humpty dumpty to - gether again? An egg.
49. What goes round the house and a harrow after her.? A hen and flock of chickens.
50. What is full and holds more.? A pot of potatoes.
51. What goes up a ladder and its head down.?. A nail in a man's boot.
52. Why is a train like a blanket?.
Because it is laid on sleepers.
53. Silk and Satin, Gold and velvet guess this name twice I've told it.? Ann.
54 Patches and patches and no stitches, if you tell me this riddle, I'll give you my breeches. A cabbage.
55 As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, king George and his soldiers could not pull it up. Shadow of moon in well.
56. Ink ank, under the bank, ten drawing four.?. A man milking a cow.
57. Why does a hen pick?. Because she can't lick.(continues on next page)
