School: Killanure, Mountrath (roll number 8095)
- Location:
- Killinure, Co. Laois
- Teacher: C. Ní Dhubhlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)the more she will squeal? A mill.
How many hairs in a dogs tail? None there all out side.
Why is a horse stronger than a mouse? A horse carries a trap and a mouse gets caught in one.
Why does a hen cross the road? Because it wants to get to the other side.
Its black and its white and its red all over? A newspaper.
Why is the letter "G" like the sun? Because it is the centre of light.
Why is the letter "T" like an island? Because it is in the middle of water.
There is a thing in every house and although people son't like to part with it yet they don't like to keep it? A bed.
As round as and apple as plump as a ball can climb the church, steeple and all? The sun.
A round as an apple as flat as a pan, a head of a woman and the whole of a man? A penny.
What side of a cup is a handle? On the outside.
Name a girls name and her address in six letters? LNKCRD.
What Co in England is spelled with two letters?SX (Essex)
How many sticks go to the building of a birds nest? None, they are all carried.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seosamh Ó Dúbhlainn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 9
- Address
- Killinure, Co. Laois
