School: Derryham
- Location:
- Derryhum, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 015
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- (1) What goes round the house and sleeps in the corner at night?
Ans. A brom.
(2) A house-full and a room-full and you could not catch a spoonfull?
Ans. Smoke
(3) I have a little house and it would not hold a mouse and there is as many windows on it as on the Lord mayor's house?
ans. a thimble.
(4) What part of a cow goes in to the byre first?
Ans. her breath.
(5) As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other a man?
Ans. A penny.
(6) What goes round the fields and twenty eight heads down?
Ans. Nails in horse's feet.
(7) In a meadow there is a table in a table there is a drawer in the drawer there is a cup and in the cup there is a sup which every one of us must taste?(continues on next page)
