School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Baile an Aird, Co. Lú
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)21 What is it that always has its hands on its face?
- A clock.22 What is it that is all pains and never feels them?
- A window.23 Why does a hen cross the road?
- To get to the far side.24 Why does a hen peck a pot?
- Because she can't lick it.25 As round as an apple, as plumb as a ball,
Can climb over church, over steeple and all?
- The sun.26 What sleeps all night with its finger in its eye?
- The crook (i.e., pot-crook).27 What is it that a white hen can do that a black hen can't?
- Lay an egg the colour of herself.28 Long legs, crooked thighs,
Little head, and no eyes?
- A tongs.29 Middy-moddy, round body,
Three feet and a wooden hat?
- A pot.30 Big Biddy from the north
Has a big mouth and can't talk;(continues on next page)
