School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir Fhearmuighe (roll number 2258)
- Location:
- Fermoy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Na Mná Rialta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0378, Page 055
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- No. 2 page 8233. Q. What part of a cow goes over the ditch first?
A. Her Breath.
24. Q. Why does a Bishop wear purple
braces?
A. To keep up his pants.
35. Q. Why does a hen pick a pot?
A. Because she can't lick it.
36. Q. Under water, over water, but never
touches water?
A. A woman with a pail of water on her
head going over a bridge.
37. Q Betty inside the ditch Betty outside the
ditch and if you touch her she will bite
you?
A. A nettle.
38. Q. Over the fire under the fire and yet
never touches the fire?
A. A cake in a bastable.
39. Q. Cork and Kerry, Londonderry, spell me
that without a K?
A. That.
40. Q. Constantinople is a very big word if you cannot spell it you are a very big
dunce?
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