School: Tuar Árd, Áth Treasna (roll number 8893)
- Location:
- Toorard, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)65 What is it the more you fill it the lighter it will get. A barrel with holes in it.
66 A roomfull and cannot get a spoon full. A room full of air.
67 A dog and a bitch went over a ditch. What was the dog's name - What
68 As black as ink, as white as milk and hops on the ground like hailstones - a magpie
69 What part of a cow goes over a ditch first - Her breath
70 When is a sick man like a window. When he has pains
71 Cut on the table, passed all round and never eaten - a deck of cards
72 When is a cow not a cow = When she is turned into a meadow
73 When is a chair like a lady's dress - When it is sat-in (satin)
74 It goes in dry and comes out wet and the longer its inside the stronger t'will get - Tea
75 What is it that will go up the chimney, down and will not come down the chimney, up - an umbrella
76 Why is a horse never hungray when harnessed - Because he always has a bit in his mouth
77 If the water of a well twenty feet deep rose two feet every day and fell a foot every night, how long would the water be rising to the brink of the stream - nineteen days
78 All round wood and never enters the wood - the bark of a tree
79 If the price of a tongs, shovel, and poker came to ten shillings, what would a ton of coal come to - cinders
80 What is the strongest day of the week - Sunday - all the(continues on next page)
