School: Muine an Mheadha
- Location:
- Monivea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádraic S. Ó hÓbáin
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- Why is an umbrella like fat
Answer Because it is dripping.Black and white and read all over
Answer A newspaper.A little house and it si full of meat there re no doors or windows and how will we get in to eat.
Answer An eggWhy is a bad schoolboy like a stamp
Answer Because he is licked and put in a corner and made stick to his letters. Twenty-four white cows lying in a hall up comes a red one and separates them all.
Answer A tongue separating your teeth.- Collector
- Annie Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nora Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Monivea Demesne, Co. Galway