School: Rooskey
- Location:
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Martin J. Casey
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0115, Page 245
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- (continued from previous page)How many sides on a bucket?
Two an inside and an outside.
What part of a ear goes into the town first?
The noise.
Two ducks before a ducks, two ducks behind a duck and a duck in the middle, how many altogether?
Three.
Three pots boiling and no fire under?
Three spring wells.
What is it that flies and yet has no wings?
Dust.
The king of England had a ship an on that ship a lady sat an I be blamed to tell her name and there's three times I have told you yet what was her name?
Ann.
I saw a man crossing a bridge and he had ninty-nine patches on his breetches
What time was it?
Time to get a new one.
If a man got sixpence for walking a mile what would he get for walking a hundred miles.?
Sore feet.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lillie Tonra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Bridget Tonra
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Roosky, Co. Mayo
