School: Aghalustia (roll number 12484)
- Location:
- Aghalustia, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)64. If father is the head of the family, what is the eldest son?
The heir, of course.
65. In one word express having encountered a doctor of medicine?
Met-a-physician.
66. Why are duels very brief affairs?
Because it only requires two seconds to arrange them.
67. When is a schoolmaster like a man with one eye?
When he has a vacancy for a pupil.
68. Why is a large kingdom like a brown study?
Because it is a roomy nation (rumination).
69. Why are balloons like vagrants?
They have no visible means of support.
70. What goes most against a farmer's grain?
A reaping machine.
71. I have a roomful and I cannot take a spoonful?
Smoke.
72. I have a fieldful and I cannot take a creelful?
Water.
73. Clippidy over hedges and thorns a brown little horse with two leather horns?
A hare.
74. What is it that has more corners than holes.
A riddle.
