School: Dromin, Dunleer (roll number 6576)
- Location:
- Dromin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)What is the nicest vegetable that grows in Ireland without a green leaf?
A mushroom.
As black as ink as white as snow, hops on the street like hailstones?
A magpie.
It comes in on a man's back and goes out in smoke?
Coals.
It goes from town to town and never moves a foot?
A Road.
In came two legs sat down on three legs, with one leg in its arms, in came four legs picked up one leg, up jumped two legs, picked up three legs and threw it after four legs?
Answer, A man sitting on a stool with a leg of mutton in his arm, in came a dog and ran away with it, and the man threw the stool after him.
Made in the wood brought to the town and earns its master many a pound?
A fiddle.
Black and white went up the hill black came down and white stayed above?
A hen layed a white eff above and she came down herself.
Why does a lady look up at the moon?
Because there is a man in it.
What has two eyes and cannot see?
The Sissors.(continues on next page)
