School: Ganntaigh (Ganty)
- Location:
- Ganty, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Sorcha Bean Uí Chlúin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0165
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- (continued from previous page)What is in a car that is no good for it ?
Noise.
A head, a foot and four legs ?
A bed.
How is an Aeroplane like a police-man ?
Because both of them take people up.
Patch upon patch without any stitches, riddle me that one and I will buy you a pair of breeches ?
A head of cabbage.
Forty sheep went out a gap, twenty white, and twenty black, A shepherd and his dog, how many feet were that ?
Two feet.
Twenty four white horses hanging in a stall, in comes the red one and licks them all ?
Your tongue licking your teeth.
Why is the sun like a good loaf ?
Because it is light when it rises.
Why is a train like a flea ?
Because it goes over sleepers.
Over the fire, under the fire, and yet not in the fire ?
A cake in an oven.
As round as an apple, as plump as a ball, it would climb the church over, steeple and all ?
The sun.
- Collector
- James Raftery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garracloon, Co. Galway
