School: Cullies
- Location:
- Cullies, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)other animal has? Kittens.
What is it that the more you take out of it the bigger it gets. A hole.
What is the hardest thing to turn. A donkey.
If a person built a wall from here to Carrickmacross what height would it be? The height of nonsense.
What goes up the stairs and its head down? A nail in a man's boot.
What is always behind time the back of a clock.
Headed like a thimble tailed like a rat you may guess for ever but you would not guess that. A pipe.
If Ireland would sink what county would float? Cork.
What is full during the day and empty at night? A shoe.
Up and down a ladder in and out I hop here I meet my lettix till each hole I stop I drag my long tail after me now guess what can I be? A darning needle. Wly is a tall man the laziest. Because he is the longest in bed.
- Collector
- Annie Magorry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cullies, Co. Cavan
