School: Carrickerry, Árd-achadh (roll number 11281)
- Location:
- Carrigkerry, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Chonaill
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- (continued from previous page)A. Because 'tis the grub that makes the butterfly.
Q. Why is grass like a mouse?
A. Because cattle (catll) eat it.
Q. Why is a herring like a mackintosh?
A. Because it keeps you dry all day.
Q. Four legs up and four legs down, soft in the middle and hard all round.
A. A bed.
Q. What is it that has no wings, yet it can fly.
A. Dust.
Q. A word of five letters, take away three and you have the same word?
A. Essay (s a)
Q. Patch upon patch and still no stitches, riddle me that and I'll give you a pair of breeches?
A. A head of cabbage.
Q. Two men were born at the same time and at the same place and they died at the same place and at the same time. Once was fifty years older than the other when he died. How did this happen?
A. One went west and the other went east and one gained two per annum on the other.
Q. Why is an egg like an untrained colt?
A. Because it must be broken in.
Q. There is a grey goose. She is large of size and the man that would hug her, should be very wise. She has four feet but walks upon none. She is far from her dwelling and self own comes home.
A. A Ship.
