School: Greaghagarran
- Location:
- Greaghagarran, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: B.Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)12. Why does a cow look over the ditch? Because she can't look under it.
13. What comes "clink-clank" to the water, and never takes a drink? A horse's shoe.
14. How many sticks, go to a crow's nest? None, because she carries them all.
15. How any calves' tails would reach to the sky? One, if it were long enough.
16. What has a head, a foot, and four legs? A bed.
17. What has two eyes and can't see? A pot.
18. Twenty sick (six) sheep went through a gap, one died and how many were left? Nineteen.
19. What goes up a ladder with its head down? A nail in a man's boot.
20. Head without hair, teeth without lips, long body and no hips? A rake.
21. Twenty white horses tied in a stall, up comes the red one, and licks them all? Teeth.
22. As black as ink, as white as milk, and hops on the road like hailstones? A magpie.
23. Why is a room full of married people like an empty one? Because there's not a single person in it.
24. Why does a lady look up at the moon? Because she sees a man in it.
25. I have a little house, it would not hold a mouse, and there's as many windows in it, as on the KIng's house? A thimble.(continues on next page)
