School: Matehy, Inniscarra
- Location:
- Saint Ann's Hill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Conchobhar Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0347, Page 225
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- 1. Question:- Why is "D" like a wedding-ring?
Answer:- Because you couldn't have a wedding without it.
2. Q:- When does a chair dislike you?
Ans:- When it can't bear you.
3. Q:- Why is a donkey looking over a gate like a halfpenny?
Ans:- Because it has a head on one side and a tail on the other.
4. Q:- On what toe does a corn never come?
Ans:- The mistletoe.
5. Q:- What is that which comes with a train, goes with a train, is of no use to a train, and yet the train cannot move without it?
Ans:- A noise.
6. Q:- What is that which has a mouth but never speaks or eats, and a bed but never sleeps in it?
Ans:- A river.
7. Q:- Which boy in your school wears the largest hat?
Ans:- The boy with the largest head.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ita Hegarty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Kilclogh, Co. Cork
