School: Cloone (B.) (roll number 15442)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teachers: T. Ó Móráin A. Ó Corraidhin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)feel but can see it?
A good joke.
No 9. Can you say how long girls should be loved?
As long as short ones.
No 10. What is taken from you before you get it?
Your portrait.
No 11. When is a rock not rock?
When it is a shamrock.
No 12. Why is a springer cow compared to Co Leitrim?
Because it is near "Cavan".
No 13. What is as bad a hen stealing?
A cock robbin.
No 14. What is it the more you take out of it the bigger it gets?
A hole in the ground.
No 15. What is it. God cannot see, a King seldom sees it and we see it often?
An Equal.
No 16. The half of a moon and the whole of a hill spells a neat little town in the Co of Leitrim.
Mohill
No 17. The King of Manchester sent home to his sister a bottomless vessel to put flesh into.
A ring.
No 18. What runs from place to place without ever moving?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Bohan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
