School: Muine Mór
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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- (continued from previous page)Ans. A coffin.
Q. What is the difference between a shoe maker and a tin smith?
Ans. One works to keep in the water and the other works to keep it out.
Q. Where did Noa strike the first nail in the Ark?
Ans. On the head.
Q. How long did Moses lie in the rushes(?)?
Ans. His full length.
Q. What goes through the wood and through the wood and never touches the wood?
Ans. A knife in a mans pocket.
Q. What stands outside the wood and eats inside of it?
Ans. A cow eating out of a tub.
Q. As I went over yon garden wall I saw a thing and he gave a call his head was flesh his mouth was horn such a thing was ever born?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mac Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnalibbert, Co. Leitrim
