School: Doire Iubhair (roll number 7194)
- Location:
- Derryoober West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan Mac Diarmuda
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If you got up on an ass where would you get down? On g a goose
What has an eye and cant see? A potato
Little laddie long snout. Every eye he goes out a little bit of his tail he is without?A person sewing with an needle and thread.
What is the right end of a of of turf?
What it is burned into ashes.
Three white men dressed in white they all got the measles and died that night? Candles.
What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison? The blind man cant see to go and the sailor cant go to sea.
When is a pony like a mouse?
When he is in a trap!
Why is a shoemaker's shop like Hell?
Because both of them are full with bad souls!
Why is Ireland like a bottle?
Because there is a cork in the end of it.
As round as an apple as deep as a pail it never cries out until its caught by the tail? A Bell!
Why did the penny scream?
Because the threepenny bit!
Why is soldier like a fashionable lady?
One faces the powder and the other powders the face!
- Informant
- Mr J. Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Derrygoolin South, Co. Galway
