School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)
- Location:
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: A. Hamill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 19
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- (continued from previous page)Q. What goes round the wood and round the wood and still never tips the wood?
A. the bark of a tree
- Q. It went to America, it came back, yet it did not do there.
A. a watchQ. The man that made it did not use it, the man that used it did not see it. What was it?
A. A coffin.Q. As round as an apple as plump as a ball and climbs the church over steeple and all.
A. The sun.Q. What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree?
A. One leaves its shed and the other sheds it leaves.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- North Street, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Peter Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- North Street, Co. Dublin
