School: Templetown
- Location:
- Baile an Teampaill, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Charles D. Hearne
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- (continued from previous page)R31: "The man that made it never wore it, the man that used it never saw it."
A31: A coffin.R32: What's full of holes and still holds water?
A32: A sponge.R33: What has an eye but cannot see?
A33: A Needle.R34: Black and white and (?) all over.
A34: Newspaper.R35: "Red when in and black when out, four corners round about."
A35: A (fair?).R36: "Black within and black without, (?) a nice thing goes in and out."
A36: An Oven.R37: "What is it occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment, and never in a thousand years?".
A37: (Letter?) M.R38: "What is always behind time?"
A38: The back of a clock.R39: "What is white and has a red head?".
A39: A Match.R40: Why is a dog like a tree?"
A40: Because both lose their bark when dead.
