School: Goggin's Hill, Béal Átha an Easaigh (roll number 12263)
- Location:
- Gogganshill, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0349, Page 301
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- (continued from previous page)A. The man with the biggest head.
Q. What does your butcher weigh?.
A. Meat of course.
Q. What is it that is full of holes and yet holds water?.
A. A sponge.
Q. What is it that the more you take from it the bigger it gets
A. A hole.
Q. What word spelled backwards and forwards is the same?.
A. Navan.
Q. Black and white and read allover?.
A. A newspaper.
Q. What is half the moon like?.
A. The other half.
Q. What is everybody doing at same time?.
A. Growing old.
Q. Why is an old woman with Rheumatism like a window?.
A. Because she is all pains.
Q. What key is without no lock?.
A. Whiskey.
Q. Head like a thimble, tail like a rat. you may guess forever but you cannot guess that.?.
A. A pipe.
Q. Why is a penny made round?.
A. Because it is meant to go round.
Q. As round as an apple. as plump as a ball it can climb over church over steeple and all?.
A. The Sun.(continues on next page)
