School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 378
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- (continued from previous page)32. If someone really split his sides with laughter what should he do?
-He should run until he got a stitch in his side.
33. What is the difference between a letter ready for posting and a lady going along the road?
-The first is addressed in an envelope, and the second is enveloped in a dress.
34. What is it that keeps on going and yet never moves?
-The road.
35. If 12 cows were standing in a circle, so that the head of one touched the tail of another, how many cows could truthfully say that another cow was touching its tail?
- None, cows cannot speak.
36. What refuses to mind its own business?
-The medlar.
37. What grows larger as you take from it?
- A rent in a garment.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
