School: Carra
- Location:
- Carha, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Tonra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 387
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- (continued from previous page)Answer = A spinning wheel.
8. What's the differance between a teacher and a postage stamp?
Answer = One licks with a stick, and one sticks with a lick.
9. Why is a policeman like a rainbow?
Answer = Because he always appears when the storm is over.
10. As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other side a man? Answer = A penny
11. What's the longest word in the English language? Answer = Smiles, because there is a mile in the middle
12. What do they do in America when it rains? Answer = Let it rain away.
13. What always walks with its head downwards? Answer = A nail in your boot.
14. Why does a hen cross the road? Answer = To get to the other side.
Round the house and round the house and whistled at the backdoor? Answer = The wind.
15. Black and white and read all over. Answer = Answer = A news paper
What's 0 multiplied by 0?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marion Sarsfield
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrownaglogh, Co. Mayo
