School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)What is she to you?
a. your mother
q. (If your under) If it took one and a half yards to make a pants and one and a quarter yds to make a vest what would it take to make the coat?
a. a tailor
q. If twenty soldiers marched past two officers what time does it represent?
a. Twenty past two.
Q. How could March fall in May and on the twenty-fifth July?
a. General March fell in the river May on the 25th July.
Q. Why don’t we ever have a full day?
a. Because each day begins by breaking
Q. Why didn’t “Moses” smoke in the ark?
a. Because he was never in the ark.
Q. Constantinople is a very big word if you cannot spell it you are a very big dunce?
a. it-t.
Q. A man looking at a photograph said “Brothers and sisters I have none but this man’s father is my father’s son?” How was that
a. He meant himself.
- Collector
- Thomas O' Dea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilconly, Co. Galway
