School: Corlurgan
- Location:
- Corlurgan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: F. Fletcher
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- (continued from previous page)Long man headless went by the door footless keep in your ducks but do not dread your dogs? A worm.
What is that, that is over the head and under the hat? Your hair.
What is the difference between a cat and a book? A cat has its tail outside and the book has it's tale inside.
What is the cause of many a silent tear? An onion.
Where is the word happy always to be found?
in the dictionary.
What is black, and white and read all over?
What is that , that has five fingers, and has neither flesh nor blood? A glove.
What has an eye and cannot see? A needle.
Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on two cripples running for the police and a dummy shouting hurry on? A lie.
Anna Smyth.
3rd February, 1938 Lisduff Cavan
- Collector
- Anna Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisduff, Co. Cavan
