School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)81. Why do women kiss, and men don't.? Because they have something better to kiss.
82. What wears shoes, and cannot take them off.? A horse.
83. What has two ears and can't hear.? A pot.
84 What has a tongue and can't talk.? Your boot.
85. Why does a lamp burn up.? Because it can't burn down.
86. What has two arms and can't move them.?
87. What has eyes and can't see.? Your boot.
88. What hops and can't walk.? A frog.
89 What has fingers and can't use them.? A mowing machine.
90. What has a comb, and it never uses it.? A rooster.
91. As I went through a guttery gap I met my Uncle Davey, with timber toes and iron nose, upon my word he'd scare the crows.?. A gun.
92. What is found in the King's palace, and the most humble cottage.?. A spider.
93. What is always going round, and never stops.?. This world.
94. What leaves rags on the hedge.?. The dew.
95. What turns and never moves.?. Milk.(continues on next page)
