School: Carrickallen
- Location:
- Carrickallen, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Lynch
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- (continued from previous page)if you were to guess for ever you would not guess that.
A A pipe.
XV. Q The man that made it didn't want it, the man that bought it didn't use it, the man that used it didn't see it.
A. A Coffin.
XVI Q Yonder in the corner lies a little red cow, give her hay give her straw and she will eat it all, now give her water and she will die.
A. A Fire.
XVII Q I have a little house it would not hold a mouse there are as many windows on it as on a Parliament house.
A. A thimble.
XVIII Q As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, can climb over church over steeple and all.
A. The Sun.
XIV Q What must you do before you come down the ladder.
A. You must go up.
XX Q What always walks with its head down.
A A nail in a man's boot.
XXI Q Humpty, dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty dumty had a great fall all the kings horses and all the kings men would not(continues on next page)- Collector
- Teresa Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tullyunshin, Co. Cavan