School: Newbawn (roll number 16072)
- Location:
- An Bábhún Nua, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Seán de Buitléir
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“I know a little round house and it is full of meat. It has neither doors or windows to let me in to eat.”
(continued from previous page)Two white men and a black man were out motoring one day. If the two white men ate the black man what was the number of the car.Answer 281
Black and white went up the hill. Black came down and white stayed.Answer . A hen laying an egg.
The man that saw it did not wear it,
and the man that wore it did not see it.Answer A Coffin.
What goes over the water and under the water and never touches the water.Answer. The sun.
Two dead men fighting, two blind men looking on, Two cripples went for the doctor, and two dummies shouted hurry on.Answer. A Lie.What is it that is full in the day and empty in the night.Answer. A Shoe.
Hairy in and hairy out and hairy into hairy's mouth.Answer. A man putting on a stocking.(continues on next page)