School: Tír na Néill (roll number 3845)
- Location:
- Tirnaneill, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Mc Cague
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 065
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- 1. Why does a dog lick a pot.
2. Because he can't pick it.
1. Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you can guess for ever but can never guess that.
2. A pipe.
1. Why does the water flow down the hill?
2. Because it can't flow up it.
1. What goes through the water and through the water and never toughes it.
2. An egg in a duck.
1. Why does a cow roar over a hill.
2. Because she can't roar through it.
1. Chip, Chip, Cherry, all the men in derry could not clime Chip, Chip, Cherry.
2. The smoke.
1. What goes from house to house and stays outside at night.
2. The road.
1. Why is a nice young lady like a carriage wheel.
2. Because there is a ring of fellows all around her.
1. What turns without moving.
2. Milk that turns sour.
December 1937
- Collector
- Kathleen Stuart
- Gender
- Female
