School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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Lot's wife.139. What is full of holes and none of them through?
A thimble.140. Write a short term for father, then turn the word round. Write a short term for mother and to it do the same. These parts put together and, lo, our old father who ne'r had a mother, now tell me his name?
Adam.141. What goes through the wood, and leaves a white rag on every bush?
The snow.142. A duck behind two ducks, a duck before two ducks, a duck in the middle between two ducks, how many duck is that?
Three ducks.143. Why is a fleas like a train?
Because it runs over sleepers.144. A cow and a calf cost a dollar and a half what would a ton of coal come to?
ashes.145. There was a donkey on one side of a river, and a hay stack on the other. The river was broad and deep, and how did the ass get over.?
Do you give it up. That is what the other ass did.146. There was a thing, full a month old, when Adam was no more. When ere(continues on next page)
