School: Lattoon
- Location:
- Lattoon, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Ó Hiorraí
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Ans. 28126. Why is fat like a wet umbrella?
Ans. Because it is dripping.27. What is that which is often brought to a table, often cut but never eaten?
Ans. A pack of cards.28. What are the most unsociable things in the world?
Ans. Milestones, for you never see two of them together.29. Why is love like a potato?
Ans. Because it springs from the eyes.30. When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye?
Ans. When he has a vacancy for a pupil. - 31. A beautiful maiden in a garden alone,
as rich as the sun could adorn, but the first day of her life, she became a wife, and died before she was born. Ans..Eve.32. There was a thing was one month old,(continues on next page)