School: Doohamlet

Location:
Doohamlat, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Mac an Bháird
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  1. What has two wings, eleven heads, twenty-two legs, yet cannot fly or walk.
    A Football Team.
    What is the difference between a white hen and a black hen?
    The white hen lay an egg the colour of herself and the black hen can't/
    When is it that an artist always likes to draw?
    His tea.
    When is a man not a man?
    When he turns into a lane.
    What is it that a woman is always looking for and when she gets it she hates to see it?
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