School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)February.Q. What is all panes like a sick man. A window.Q. 24 white animals tied in a shed one big red one came out, and washed all the rest? Tongue and teeth.Q. A bridge over the lake without sticks or stones on it. A rainbow or ice.Q. If it takes twenty minutes to bath a child what will it take to dry it. A towel.Q. How many legs has a tailors goose. None, because it is an iron.Q. In yonder meadow there lies a lump of fat eight or ten carpenters working at that? A sow and a litter of pigs.Q. What is in a riddle as well as holes? Corners.Q. If the donkey's head points towards the north where will his tail point to? The ground.Q. What is the difference between a boy "over whose head twelve summers are past" and a man taking a nap? One is twelve the other a dozing (dozen).
