School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 203
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- (continued from previous page)stall up comes a red one and licks them all ?
Your teeth and your tongue.What is the difference between a boy's boot and a camera ?
One is made for five toes and the other is made for four toes (photos)Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, two cripples running for the police and two dummies shouting hurry on ?
Whats that.
A Lie.What three things cannot be found ?
A shoe to fit the foot of mountain
a towel to wipe the face of the earth and a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean.What has arms but no hand, a wooden leg put cannot stand, is often wet but cannot feel, has no shoes but shod with steel a silk dress with a belt around the middle.
Now can you guess that silly riddle ?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Dwyer
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scurlocksbush, Co. Wexford
