School: Bredagh Glen (roll number 14635)
- Location:
- Bredagh Glen, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 108
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- 1. What is it that can go up the chimney down and cannot come down the chimney up.
An umbrella.
2. Why is a stamp like a schoolmaster.
One sticks with a lick and the other licks with a stick.
3. As white as milk, as black as silk, and hops on the road like hailstones.
A magpie.
4. What is is that goes up the stairs, black and white, and comes down read (red).
A newspaper
5. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you'll never guess that.
A pipe.
6. One half dead, the other half living and a tail wagging.
A dog with his head in a pot.
7. What is it that occurs once in every minute, twice in every moment, but never in a thousand years.
The letter M
8. Why is a banana skin like the letter F.
Because both make all fall.
9. What word of five letters can you make smaller by adding two letters.
Small.
10. A kitchen full, a room full, and you couldn't lift a spoon full.
Smoke.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
