School: Doire Ó gCuanaigh (roll number 8991)
- Location:
- Doire Dhamhna, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: L. Mac Áinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 174
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- (continued from previous page)Answer-: Because it stands over six feet.What is the difference between a silk stocking and a pulled tooth.
Answer:- One is too thin and the other is tooth out.Tick tack tick tack tick tack too, tick tack the whole day is through.
Answer-: A Clock.Why is a woman darning her stockings a very peculiar thing to see.
Answer-: Because her hands are where her feet ought to be.Humpty, dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty dumpty got a great fall
All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn't put Humpty together again.
Answer-: An Egg.There lives a wee laddy behind the wall he has four feet a small head and no tail at all when he is annoyed he looses is head, feet and all and curls himself up in a ball.
Answer-: A Hedgehog(continues on next page)
