School: Knockanargan, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Knockanarrigan, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Annie Draper
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0916, Page 054
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- (continued from previous page)and his dog went up a gap. How many feet went up? 2 feet. Can you spell a cráugrín in three letters? Hay. What key will not open a door? Whiskey. A clipper of ditches, a cutter of thorns, a little cow with two leather horns? A hare. Why is a dog's tail so much like the pith of a tree? Because it is the farthest from the bark. What is it that all the men in London couldn't climb? Smoke. When was B our first letter? When there was no A. Why is a person in an armchair so much like the Equator? Because they are between the poles. Why does a railway clerk cut a hole in your return ticket? To let you pass through. When is love a deformity? When it is all on one side. Why is a blacksmith like a king? Because his nose is above his chin. As black as ink as white as snow. It hops on the road like a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Case
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brittas, Co. Wicklow
