School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 042
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- (1) What is that which you cannot hold ten minutes although it is as light as a feather? Ans. your breath.
(2) What key is the hardest to turn? Ans. donkey.
3 What is that which flies high flies low has no feet and yet wears shoes? Ans. dust.
4 What is the most difficult thing to cook for Christmas dinner? Ans. a tailor's goose.
5 Why is a cherry like a book? Ans because it is red.
6 Why should you not choose the 12.50 train to go to London by? Ans because it is ten to one if you catch it.
7 What is that which is full of holes and yet holds water? Ans. a sponge.
8 Why did Adam bite the apple that(continues on next page)
