School: Baile an Churraigh
- Location:
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Teacher: A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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- (continued from previous page)32. As I was going to the fair of Athy I met nine tailors and their nine wives, these nine wives had nine cats and these nine cats had nine kittens. Tailors, wives, cats and kittens. How many were going to the fair of Athy?
(One)
33. Around about the kitchen and sleeps in the corner?
(Twig)
34. What's rosier than a pig in the wood?
(Two pigs)
35. Why does a duck across the road?
(To get to the other side)
36. What is it the more you take from it the bigger it get?
(A hole in the ground)
37. Humpty, Dumpty sat on the wall, humpty, dumpty got a great fall. All the kings horses and all the kings men could'nt put humpty together again?
(An egg.)(continues on next page)
