School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0399, Page 214
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- A man came to my father to buy a rick of turf from him, he asked him how many rails were in it. My father told him that if there were as many more and half as many and seven and a half there would be a hundred rails in it, how many rails were in it?
Thirty seven.
Two legs sitting on three legs, up came four legs, snapped one leg, up stood two legs, fired three legs after four legs, and brough back one leg.
A dog carrying a leg of mutton.
What goes with the car, comes with the car and it is no good to the car and the car can't go without it?
Noise.
As round as a marble, as flat as a pan, half a woman and half a man.
A penny.(continues on next page)
