School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí
- Location:
- Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Olivia
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- (continued from previous page)Why are sugar lumps like horse?
The longer you lick them the faster they go.
As I went up the hill I met my Uncle Bill he had long legs crooked thighs a small head and no eyes?
Tongs.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty got a great fall all the king's horses and all the kings men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again?
An egg.
As I went up a hill I met my uncle Davy I cut off his head and drank his blood and left him lying lasy?
A bottle of whiskey.
As I went up the hill I saw a thing lying by the hedge It was neither flesh nor bone it had four fingers and a thumb?
A glove.
Deep and damp and fit for any lord?
A grave.
The man that made it did not want it and the man that wore it did not see it?
A coffin.
What is it that has two legs and yet it cannot walk?
A tongs.
Why is Westminster Abbey like the ashes on the hearth?
Because they both hold the ashes of the grate (Great)
Why does a hen pick the pot?
Because she cannot lick it
I have a little horse with an iron throat as quick(continues on next page)
