School: Tervoe (C.) (roll number 5932)
- Location:
- Tervoe, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Stiopháin
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- (continued from previous page)19. What is the difference between a jailer and a jewler?
One sells watches. The other watches cells.
20.
How would you get down off an elephant's back? Down is only got on a goose's back.
21.
What is the difference between a farmer and a dressmaker?
One gathers what he sows. The other sews what they gather.
22.
What is the difference between a teacher and a station master?
One minds the train. The other trains the mind.
23.
What is the difference between a new penny and an old shilling? Eleven pence.
24.
What is as crooked as the River Maigue? It's banks.
25.
What is taken from you before you get it?
Your photograph.
26.
Why is an ass like a stamp?
Because you must lick him before he will go.
27. What goes round the wood and round he wood and never gets into the wood? The bark of a tree.(continues on next page)
