School: Carrigans (C.)
- Location:
- Carrigan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 141
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- (continued from previous page)What are always behind time?
Answer: - The works of a clock.
Two dead men get out to fight. two blind men stood looking on. Two cripples running for the police and two dummys shouting hurry on?
Answer:- A lie.
What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
Answer:- a hole.
Black and white and read all over.
Answer:- A newspaper.
Two black men and a white man went out for a drive in a car. If the two black men ate the white man what was the number of the car?
Answer:- 2 8 1 (two ate one)
What has four fingers and a thumb but can't hold an apple?
Answer:- a glove.
Why is a dog's tail like a swan's bosom?
Answer:- Because it grows down.
Why is the letter "h" like a cure for deafness?
Answer - Because it makes the ear hear.
If it takes a half yard of tweed to make a cap what will it take to make a coat?
Answer:- A tailor.
Out I went and in I came death I saw, life In the same, the six they sat, the seventh got free(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rose Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Urbal, Co. Cavan
