School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0781, Page 250
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- 1. What will go up a chimney down and wont come down a chimney up? An umbrella.
2. Hairy all over rough in the shin two things wagging and one going in? A pig eating.
3. Why does a cow look over a ditch? Because she can't look under it.
4. As I went out through a gap I met my uncle Davy with iron nose and steel toes and upon my word she wou(l)d frighten the crows? A gun.
5. What will go up a ladder with its head down. A nail in a boot.
6. What has a face and no head? A clock.
7. Tin Tank under a bank ten drawing four. A woman milking a cow.
- Collector
- Patrick Berry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
