School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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- (continued from previous page)53. A certain frog wanted to get up out of a well, which was thirty feet deep. Although every day he jumped up two feet, he slipped back one at night. How long would it take him to get out?
-Twenty-nine days That would land him at the top and once there he wouldn’t slip back.
54. Two carol singers were singing in the snow. One was the father of the others son. What relation were they to each other?
-Husband and wife
55. If it takes six men twelve days to dig a hole how long will it take twelve men to dig half a hole?
-You can’t have half a hole.
56. When is a lawyer like a beast of burden?
-When drawing up a conveyance.
57. What divides by uniting?
-Pair of scissors
58. What is the easiest thing in the world to break?
-Silence.
59. What time of the year does a pilot use his parachute the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
