School: Cill Tormóir (Kiltormer) (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Kiltormer, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Muineacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0056, Page 0347
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- RiddlesWhat is the difference between a dead duck and a dead doctor.
Answer - Both have stopped quacking.A man went to a jail to see a man who was a prisoner there. The jailer asked him what relation was he to the man in jail. He said "Sister or brother I have none but that man's father is my father's son". What was the relationship between them.
Answer - He was the father of the prisoner.What will go up the chimney down but will not come down the chimney up.
Answer - An umbrellaLittle thing, little thing, smaller than a mouse has got more windows than a king's house.
Answer - A thimble.What goes round the wood and round the wood yet never gets into the wood.
Answer - The bark of a tree.I went to the wood and I met it, I sat down and I fought it and against my will I brought it.
Answer - A thorn in my foot.What is the difference between a barber and a burglar?
Answer - One has a false locks, the other has false keys.Dick's father was Tom's son, what was Dick to Tom?
Answer - He was his son.Long legs, short toes, little head and no nose.
Answer - a Tongs.Patrick Tierney, Ballydonagh, Kiltormer, Ballinasloe.
- Collector
- Patrick Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydonagh, Co. Galway
