School: Dún an Ochta (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Eyrecourt, Co. Galway
- Teachers: Séamus Mac a' Bhuidhe Úna Ní Laighidh
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- (continued from previous page)14. When does a son not take after his father?
(When his father leaves him nothing to take)
15. Why is a Butcher like a fashionable young Lady?
(One kills to dress, the other dresses to kill)
16. Why did Adam bite the apple Eve gave him?
(He had no knife to cut it)
17. What is that you cannot hold for 10 minutes even tho it's as light as a feather?
(Your breath)
18. Which travels faster - heat or cold?
(Heat, for you can catch cold easily)
19. What is that which every human being has seen and will never see again?
(Yesterday)
20. Why is a dog's tail like the bark of a tree?
(Because it is the furthest from the bark)
21. Why is a cabbage seed run to seed like a lover?
(Because it has lost it's heart)
22. A woman's brother was on trial for murder. The Judge said he'd set him free if she gave him a riddle he could not solve. This is the riddle:-
'Out I went and in I came
Out of the dead the living came
Six there were, and seven to be
I hope this will set my brother free?
(A bird's nest in human scull)
23. In a house there was a family. It consisted(continues on next page)
