School: Cornamon (roll number 13926)
- Location:
- Corr na mBan, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: John Kenny
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 519
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- (continued from previous page)(7) What is black and white and read all over? - A newspaper.
(8) Everything has it even a pipe - A name.
(9) That bridge does a man never walk across? - The bridge of his nose.
(10) What goes up the chimney down but won't go down the chimney up? - An umbrella.
(11) What walks with its head on the ground? - A nail in one's boot.
(12) Jack and his master went out for a walk. He didn't walk before him, behind him or on one side of him. Where did he walk? - On the other side of him.
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