School: Araglin (C.), Cill Úird (roll number 9248)
- Location:
- Araglin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Cheallacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0377, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)the man who wore it never saw it?
A coffin.
Under fire, over fire, never touches the fire?
A cake baking in a bastable.
It is black and white and it is read all over?
The newspaper.
The more you take from it the larger it gets?
A hole.
Why is a black hen cleverer than a white hen?
Because a black hen can lay a white egg, and the white hen cannot lay a black egg.
What goes up the hill as fast as it comes down?
The hand of a clock.
I have a little house and a mouse would not live in it and all the men in town could not count all the windows in it?
A thimble.
What part of a cow goes over the ditch first?
Her breath.
If you will get up on a donkey's back where will you get down?(continues on next page)
