School: An Clochar, Gráig na Muilte Iarainn
- Location:
- Woodford, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Sr. I. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0419
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“Q. What is the difference between a dressmaker and a farmer?”
(continued from previous page)eats nothing?
A lamp.What is it that eats all and drinks nothing?
A fire.Alive at the two ends and dead in the middle?
A man ploughing.Patch upon patch without any stitches?
A head of cabbage.The kitchen full and the room full and you could not catch a spoonful?
Smoke.What walks with it's head down?
A nail in your boot.What goes on four legs in the morning, two at midday, three in the evening?
A man, because he goes on four when a child, two when a man and two and a staff when old.Why is a Christmas pudding like a swift running river?
A Christmas pudding is full of currants.How many calves' tails would reach the moon?
One if it were long enough.(continues on next page)