School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 335
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- (continued from previous page)B?
Answer - You open your mouth while saying A and you close your mouth while saying B.
III What is the height of nonsense?
Answer - Sipping soup with a fork.
IV What is brought to the table, cut but never eaten?
Answer - Playing Cards.
V Chip, Chip, Cherry all the men in Londonderry would not climb up Chip Chip Cherry.
Answer - Smoke.
VI What side of the cup is the handle o.
Answer - The Outside.
VII Forty sheep went out a gap, forty more followed that, one eleven, two eleven. Two and three. How many is that?
Answer - Five.
VIII Why should a hen never be untidy?
Answer - Because she carries a little comb.
- Collector
- Bridie Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Palmerstown, Co. Mayo
