School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)A. Take your feet off the ground.
Q. What did the monkey say when he slept on the railway
A. Hard lines.
Q. What did the monkey say when he threw away the clock?
A. Time flies.
- Q. Why does not a clock strike fourteen?
A. Because it has not the face to do so.
Q. Why is a toffee like a racehorse?
A. Because the more you lick it the faster it goes.
Q, Why is a dirty boy like flannel?
A. Because he shrinks from washing.
Q. When is a wall like a fish?
A. When it is scaled.
Q. Why is a freshly baked cake like the sun?
A. Because it is light when it rises.
Q. A slipper of ditches, a leaper of thorns, a wee brown cow with a pair of leather horns?
A. A hare.(continues on next page)
