School: Cill Tulaigh (roll number 15166)
- Location:
- Kiltullagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seán Ó Seasnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0034, Page 0482
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- Q. What steps can never be climbed?
A. Footsteps
Q. What runs, but never walks?
A. A tap.
Q. When is a cow not a cow?
A. When she is turned into a field.
Q. Why is a mouse like hay?
A. Because the cat'll eat it
Q. What has four legs but flies?
A. Two birds.
Q. Why is a drawn tooth like something forgotten?
A. Because it is gone out of your head.
Q. Why should a poor man drink coffee?
A. Because he has no property. (proper tea)
Q. What three figures multiplied by 4 make 5?
A. 1 1/4
Q. Take away 1 from 9 and make 10?
A. IX stands for 9. Take away I and X ten remains.
Q. Multiply two figures to gether and make 1?
A. 7 times 1
Q. Can you put 2 and 2 together and make more than 4?
A. 22 (twenty-two)
Q. What three letters would frighten a burglar?
A. I.C.U.
Q. Why should an engine-driver never carry a watch?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mr William Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knockatogher, Co. Galway
