School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 386
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- (continued from previous page)of potatoes when you pour water in.
19. What word makes you sick when one of the letters is omitted? Music.
20. Bridge across the river without stick or stone? Ice.
21. Twenty four white cows standing in a stall up comes the red one and licks them all? Your tongue on your teeth.
22. As round as an apple as plump as a ball can climb the church over steeple and all? The sun.
23. What goes round the house all day and sleeps in the corner at night? A boot.
24. I have a little sister she sits on the wall she drinks all she gets she eats none at all? A lamp
25. There is a little thing in every house it has as many windows as King George's house? A Thimble.
26. Under the water and over the water and never tips the water? An egg in a duck.
27. What smells most in a Chemist shop? Your Nose.
28. I am neither beast now fowl although i have legs, laid flesh daily although I am not egg I am neither trees nor flowers although I have leaves a many and without one for food you might not get any? A table.
29. What has a black head but cannot move it? Pot.
30. Why is it useless to give a horse food? Because he cannot eat a bit.(continues on next page)
