School: Caherelly, Grange, Kilmallock (roll number 2184)
- Location:
- Caherelly, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John Raleigh
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- (continued from previous page)Because it shoots from the eye.
68 What is it that has teeth and cannot eat?
A rake.
69 What is it that I have and you make more use of it?
Your name.
70 What is the last thing you do before you go to bed?
Take your feet off the floor.
71 I threw it up as white as snow like gold in a flag it fell below?
An egg.
72 What does a hen pick the pot?
Because she can't lick it.
73 Bessie inside the ditch and Bessie outside the ditch and if you touch Bessie she'll bit you?
A nettle.
74 What has a carriage that it doesn't want and yet it can't go without it?
Noise.
75 Hairy all over and rough in the skin two things shaking and one going in?
A pig feeding.
76 Why does a coat hang down.
Because it can't hang up.(continues on next page)
