School: Maio (roll number 13119)
- Location:
- Trohanny, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Chreaig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0706, Page 437
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- 1. What runs and cant walk?
A river.2. What goes round the world, and round the world and stays outside at night?
The road3. What goes around and its head down?
A nail in your boot.4. As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman, and the other a man?
A penny.5. What is black and white and read all over?
The newspaper.6. Long legs, short thighs, small head and no eyes.
A tongs.7. Which is it correct to say, Tomorrow is Saturday, or Tomorrow will be Saturday.
Neither, Tomorrow is Wednesday.8. If Paris was the capital of Ireland, and Dublin the capital of France, and a man committed suicide in Ireland, where would he be hanged?
He would be dead.9. I went into an orchard, and I saw a tree with apples on it. I took no apples, I left no apples, How many apples were on the tree?
Two.10. White bird, featherless, flew from Paradise, and lit on the walls of Jerusalem. Out came Lady Landless, took it up handless, ate it up toothless, and rode away horseless.
Snow.(continues on next page)
