School: Ballinorley (roll number 11597)
- Location:
- Bellanurly, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mrs Anna Ewing
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- 1. Out of a room-full you could not lift a spoonful? Smoke.
2. Useless, useless instrument, often bought but never lent; those who buy it do not won it; those who own it do not know it. A coffin
3. I went to America and I stopped there. I was sent home again because I wouldn't go there. A clock. - Collector
- Olive Lindsay
- Gender
- Female
- Its neither inside the house nor outside the house yet it forms part of the house. A window,
2. What is the shyest thing in the world? A clock because it always has its hands on its face.
3. What lies beside the fire with over two hundred eyes? A pot of soup.
