School: De Freyne (roll number 16457)
- Location:
- Portaghard, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 144
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- (continued from previous page)When is a trunk like two letters of alphabet? When it is M.T. (empty)
If fire irons including tongs, poker, shovel to come to £1-17-6 What will the turf come to? Ashes.
A farmer who keeps no hens can have eggs every morning for his breakfast although he neither buys nor gets presents. Where does he get them? He keeps ducks
Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she cant look under it.
Why does a hen pick the Port? Because she cannot lick it.
What walks with its head down? A nail in your boot.
Round the house and round the house and stands on its head at the back door? A Broom.
Round the house and round the house and peeps in the keyhole? The Sun
Ink ank under the bank, ten drawing four? A woman milking a cow!
What insect does the blacksmith make? The fire fly.
What goes to make a pair of shoes? Two shoes.
Why is the letter B. like intense heat? Because it makes oil boil.
When does a chair hate you? When it can't bear you.
When will water stop running down a hill? When it reaches the bottom.
What has a head but cannot wave it? A pin.
When is a horse not a horse! When it is turned into a field
Why is a lawyer like a beggar? Because he pleads for a living
What teeth never bite? The teeth of a comb.
Why is it useless to give a horse food? Because he cannot eat a bit.
Flies high, flies low, wears shoes and has none? A football.
As I went up a steeple I met three Christian people. They were neither men women nor children. What were they? A man, woman, and child.
What is it goes in dry and comes out wet and everybody likes it? Tea.
Once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in a thousand years? M.(continues on next page)
