School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0536, Page 036
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- All the trees ran a race what tree was last.
The slowtree.
Black and white and red all over
A newspaper.
What flies high and lies low wears boots and has none.
A football.
If thin
If the chimney does not draw smoke what will it draw.
Tears
Why is a horse never hungry.
Because he always has a bit in his mouth.
Why is ten and ten like eleven and eleven.
Because ten and ten is twenty and eleven and eleven is twenty too.
Why is a feather bed compared to a watch
Because in a feather bed the tick is outside and in the watch the(continues on next page)
