School: Leath-cheathrú (roll number 13437)
- Location:
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Ó Maidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 508
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- Q I have a little man above in the field. When I will pull his leg his nose will bleed?
Ans A pump.
Q. Which house is never dark?
Ans. The lighthouse.
Q. 3 What do we often atch but never see? Ans A Passing Remark.
Q 4 Born at the same time as the world, destined to live as long as the world yet never five weeks old?
Ans The moon.
Q. 5 What is the difference between a tree and an aeroplane?
Ans One sheds it leaves, and the other leaves its shed.
Q. 6 Which is the swifter, hear or cold?
Ans. Heat, because anyone can catch a cold.
Q. 7 Use me well and I am everybody,
Scratch my back and I am nobody?
Ana. A looking - glass.
Q. 8 When was beef the highest it ever had been?
Ans. When the cow jumped over the moon.
Q. 9 When is a dead duck like a dead doctor?
Ans. Because both have stopped quacking.
Q. 10 What key is a poisonous one?
Ans. Whiskey.
Q. 11 What is everybody doing at the same time?
Ans Growing old.
Q 12 What is taken from you before you get it?
Ans. Your photograph.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cáit Nic Stibhín
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brackloonagh South, Co. Mayo
