School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 311
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a cow look over a style? (Because she cannot look under it.)What part of a motor-car goes up the hill first? (The noise.)Which is a long man or a short man the laziest? (The long man because he is the longest in bed.)I have a little sister she sits in the hall, and if you went near her she would bawl? (A bell.)When I am old they cut me and in a hole they put me. When I am three months old they come to look for me quite bold. Between fire and water they burn me. Between two irons they turn me and when I'm stripped in my skin they find a hole to put me in? (A potato.)If a man go sixpence for walking one mile what would he get for walking thirty miles? (Sore feet.)Hink, hank on the bank ten drawing four? (A man milking a cow.)What went up stairs black and came down red all over? (A paper.)Through the wall and through the wall and never touches the wall? (The sound of a bell.)(continues on next page)
