School: Seamar
- Location:
- Shammerdoo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Loideáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0114, Page 34
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- (continued from previous page)What is the difference between a soldier and a fashionable young lady? One faces the powder and the other powders the face.
Why is a pair of skates like an apple?
Because they both caused the fall of man?
Why did Adam bite the apple Eve gave him?
Because he had no knife.
What is better than presence of mind in a railway accident?
Absence of body.
What is the quickest way to cover a chair seat?
To sit on it.
What is the difference between a tree and an aeroplane?
One sheds its leaves and the other leaces its shed.
How many kind of trees are there in the forest?
Two-crooked and straight.
A fiddler in Cork had a brother a fiddler in New York but the fiddler in New York had no brother a fiddler in Cork.
The fiddler in Cork was a girl.
Why are gloves unsaleable articles?
Because they are always in hands.
What goes in dry and comes out wet?
Tea.
What is the best way to keep a woman's love?
Not to return it.
- Collector
- Annie Regan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barcull, Co. Mayo
