School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 038
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- 1.
What is black and white and red all over? A newspaper.
2.
What is all patches and no stitches? A head of cabbage.
3.
What is full and holds more? A pot of potatoes.
4.
What is it that when it is too short if a piece is cut off it will be long enough? A grave.
5.
Outside the house there is a well, and in the well there is a cup, and in that cup there is a sup that every man must tast? Death.
6.
What walks with its head downwards? A nail in a shoe.
7.
Why does a hen pick a pot? Because she couldn't lick it.
8.
What is the difference between an engine driver and a school master? One minds the train, and the other trains the mind.
9.
What part of a cow goes over a fence first? Her breath.
10.
Long legs, crooked thighs, small head and no eyes? A tongs.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
