School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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- As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a man and the other a woman.
Answer A penny
How many hairs in a dog's tail
Answer. None they are all outside.
What is the shiest thing in the house. Answer A clock.
How many feet has forty sheep a shephard and his dog
Answer. Two feet
What is it that the more you take out off it, the bigger it gets
Answer A hole.
Why does a hen pick the bot
Answer Because she cant lick it.
If rain comes down what goes up
Answer An Umbrella.
A useful useless instrument; once it's bought it's never lent; the man that buys it never owns it(continues on next page)- Collector
- Michael Joe Gormley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockmore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr James Gormley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Occupation
- Smith