School: Darley
- Location:
- Cootehill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Newburn
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- (continued from previous page)What is the difference between an engine driver & a schoolmaster? One minds the train & the other trains the mind.
Once in a minute twice in a moment & not once in a thousand years? The letter M.
Why is a housefull of married people like an empty one.
Because there is not a single one in it.
Why is a pig in a parlour like a house on fire? Because the sooner it's put out the better.
Why is a man with one eye able to see better than a man with two eyes? The man with two eyes can see only one eye & the man with one eye can see two eyes.
A knife of ivory bound with misery would kill a bull would bind a bear and kill 10,000 men of war.
Ans Hunger.
As round as an apple as plump as a bell Can climb over churches steeple & all? Ans Sun.
Why is an umbrella like a pancake? because it is seldom seen after lent.
I looked out of a wonderful window I saw a wonderful thing. I saw the dead carrying the living. Was not that a wonderful thing? Ship full of people.
As I went up to Dublin I saw a great wonder. Ten & thirty blackbirds tearing the ground assunder? Harrow
Head without tail Teeth without lips Long tail & no lips? Hay rake.
What grows in Winter with its roots up? Icycle.
