School: Cill an Daingin
- Location:
- Killadangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)R. Why is dancing like new milk?
A. Because it is good for the calves.
R. What South American country is never warm?
A. Chile.
R. On what toe does corns never grow?
A. Mistletoe.
R. What trees remind us of money?
A. Golden gorse, silver birch and copper beech.
R. What is it the longer it lives the shorter it grows?
A. A candle.
R. The man that made it did not want it; the man that bought it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it?
A. A coffin.
R. What sort of fish is everybody except yourself?
A. Selfish.
R. Why is a drawn tooth like something you have forgotten?
A. Because it is gone out of your head.
R. Why is a horse like a sympathetic man?
A. Because he stops at the sound of woe (whao).
R. What two towns of France are like a sailor's trousers?
A. Toulon and Toulouse.
R. A little man sitting on the wall,
Drinking all he gets & eats none at all?
A. A Lamp.
