School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
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- What has a tongue and can't speak? A shoe.
What has teeth and can't eat? A comb.
As round as an apple as flat as a pan, one side a woman the other a man? A penny.
What goes round the house and round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night? A brush.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you might guess forever but you'll not guess that? A pipe.
What goes round the wood and never goes into the wood? The bark of a tree.
My granny sent me over to your granny for the loan of the hiddie, the haddie, the double combatic to beat the crudlu cruds round of the cruds? The Churn dash.
]Brown within and black without a very good fit and I like it? A shoe.
Alive in the front, dead in the middle, and baptised behind? A man(continues on next page)
