School: Rush (B.) (roll number 7624)
- Location:
- Rush, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Henry Moriarty
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- An inspector visiting a country school was asking a junior class questions. After some time he said "Now I want you children to ask me a question that I cannot answer."There was a long silence, and the inspector thinking that no boy could give him such a question started to laugh. But a small boy from the corner of the room stood up and said."Please sir, if you were stuck up to your neck in a pool of mud, and a brick was thrown at your head would you duck.
- Collector
- Joseph Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rush, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Mrs Howard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rush, Co. Dublin