School: Moyvore
- Location:
- Moyvore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Kelly
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- (continued from previous page)26) Round the wood and round the wood but never enters the wood? The bark of a tree.
27) All patches and no stitches? A tube.
28) What do you bring in in your arms that goes out in dust? Turf.
28) I went into the wood and got it. I sat down to look for it and I could not find it? A thorn in my foot.
29) Compare a dog with a tree? They both lose their bark when they die.
30) What is hung and never choked? A pot.
31) A leader of ditches, a cropper of thorns, a little brown cow with two leather horns? A hare.
32) Black I am but much admired, men and horses I have tired, gold and silver I have cost, and now I am gone to dust at last? Turf.
33) When bringing home my flock of geese last evening I met a young lady who said to me "Good evening to you, and your score of geese". I answered and said "I have not a score nor half a score, but if I had as many and half as many, then I would have a score."How many geese had I? Eight.
