School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 251
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- (continued from previous page)96. Why is a loaf on top of a house like a blood horse?. Because it is high bred.
97. What is the difference in a milk maid, and a swallow.?. Because one skims milk, and the other skims water.
98. What is nothing.?. A footless sock without a leg.
99. What is always behind time?. The back of a clock.
100. What grows down, and never grows up.?. A cow's tail.
101. What do you do when you get into bed.?. Bruise the clothes.
102. What smells most in a chemist shop.?. Your nose.
103. As long as ten men, as strong as ten men, and ten men could not put it on its end.?. A tether.
104. What has one eye and can't see.?. A needle.
105. What has two legs, and it has to be wheeled.?. A barrow.
106 Blackie sat on jaggy, and glowery looked at that, and snappy pulled to gabby, and guess what riddle is that?. A blackberry.
107. A long father, and a big stout mother, and three small children all the same colour.?. A pot(continues on next page)
