School: Clochar na Trócaire, Béal Átha na mBuillí

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Strokestown, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Olivia
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    Why is a pepper box like a saint?
    Because it is holy.
    What is it that goes up the hill and down the hill and yet does not move?
    The road.
    What is that never asks and questions but requires many answers?
    The street door.
    When is a boat like a heap of snow?
    When it is adrift.
    Why is an adjective like a drunken man?
    Because it cannot stand alone.
    As I went up the hill I saw twenty little divels scraping?
    A harrow.
    As I looked out the window I saw a dead thing carrying live thing?
    People in a motor car.
    Little thing little thing as small as a mouse and has as many windows as king George's house?
    A thimble.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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