School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0253, Page 282
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- Why does a duck cross the road?
Because she wants to get to the other side.
What has ears and cannot hear?
A pot.
What is it that is bought by the yard and worn by the foot?
A carpet
Why does an ass look over the ditch?
Because he cannot look under it
What is it that carries its house on its back?
A snail
It is in the meadows and you don't cut it. It is in the shop and dont sell?
The light of the sun
Why does a donkey like thistles better corn?
Because he is an ass
As black as ink and ink it isnt,as white as milk and milk it isnt, it hops on the road like hailstones and hailstones it isnt?
A magpie
Black and white and read all over?
The newspaper
From house to house in the day and sleeps out at night?
A path
What part of a cow goes out a gate first?
Her breath
Round the house and round the house and lay in the corner?
The broom
London, Derry, Cork and Kerry spell me that without a K?
That
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side(continues on next page)
