School: Ballynarry
- Location:
- Ballynarry, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 008
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- How many sticks goes to the building of a crows nest?
None; they are all carried to it.What is it that God can't do?
Lift a bald man by the hair of the head.What is it that is black and white and read all over?
The newspaper.As round as an applie, as deep as a cup, and all the men in Derry couldn't lift it up?
A well.What is it that we have, and God hasn't?
A bossHow many hares in a bull?
Four; a hare is threepence and a bull is a shilling.As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman, the other a man?
A penny.What are most girls like old muskets?
Because they use much powder but wont go off.What is it that goes round the house and leaves a loaf in every window?
The snow.What is it that goes round the house and drags its puddings after it?
A hen and a flock of chickens.What is it that we give freely but never take?
Advice.As I went into a meadow one day I found a thing, and brought it home; it was neither fish, flesh, feather or bone and yet in three weeks it can walk alone
An egg.Why is the word "Smiles" the longest word in the English language?
Because there is a mile between the first and last word
- Collector
- Sheamus Smyth
- Gender
- Male
