School: Bán-Tír (B.) (roll number 2803)
- Location:
- Banteer, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Síothcháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0361, Page 526
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- 1 Why are tall people the laziest.?
Because they are longest in bed
2 When is a clock on the stairs dangerous?
When it strikes one
3 Why is a dog's tail like the middle of a tree?
Because it is farthest from the "bark".
4 Why is a tidy class-room like the letter "o"?
Because they are both in "order".
5 Why is the telephone like a good child?
It only speaks when spoken to.
6 There was a little house, and a mouse couldn't live in it, and all the men in town, couldn't count how many windows in it. - A thimble.
7 A jumper of fences, through bushes and thorns, a round little cow, wearing no horns. - A rabbit.
8 What goes away between two woods, and comes home between two waters.
A man fetching water in wooden pails
9 What is it always walks with its head down?
A nail in your boot.
10 Niddy-noddy, round body, three feet, and a wooden hat!
A pot.
11 One half dead, the other half living, and a tail wagging!
A dog with its head in a pot.
- Collector
- Patrick O' Callaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackaneen, Co. Cork
