School: The Downs (roll number 8875)
- Location:
- Na Dúnta, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: S. Molloy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 193
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- What has a head a foot and four legs? A bed.
What is it that we often return but never
borrow? Thanks.
Why does a man sneeze three times?
Because he cannot help it.
As I went up the steeple I met three
Christian people. They werent men, women
or children and yet they were Christian
people? A man, a woman, and a child.
In a hill there is a kiln. In a kiln
there is a cup. In the cup there is a
cup and every one must taste it? Death.
Too short, cut a bit of and make it large
enough? A grave.
The longer it lives the shorter it grows?
A candle.
I saw a ship going up the river there
were forty men in it and yet there wasnt
a single man in it? They were all married.
Long legs short thighs small head and
no eyes? A tongs.
'Tis red, white, olive, and green, The King can't
get it, neither the queen? The rainbow.
A beautiful maid in a garden was laid
she was as fair as the flowers in the morn
'Twas the first time in life, she became a(continues on next page)
