School: Machaire Áirne
- Location:
- Magherarny, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Aodhgáin
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- (continued from previous page)A.The Sun
Q. Why is a horse never hungry on his journey?
A. Because he has a bit in his mouth.
Q. What is the difference between a soldier and a fashionable young lady?
A. One faces the powder and the other powders the face.
Q. I sit on my hunkers and I watch through my winkers and I see the dead burying the living?
A. Racking the fire
Q. Twenty sheep went though a gap, twenty more followed that six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two how many is that?
A.Five
Q. As I went through a guttery gap I met my uncle David, I cut off his head and drunk his blood and left him lying easy.
A. A bottle of stout
Q. Hit an egg against the wall, twill neither crack, break or fall.
A. The wall
Q. Chip, chip cherry all the men in Derry could to climb up chip, chip, cherry.
A. Smoke
Q. What goes up the ladder and head down.
A. A nail in a man's boot(continues on next page)
