School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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- Ques. A car full of people went over the bridge, and there was not a single in it.
Ans. They were married.
Q. Why is a jailor like a musician.
A Because he fingers the keys.
Q. What comes in the window and goes out the door.
A. A letter in a Post Office.
Q. In Peters Park there stands a deer, his horns shine both far and near, he is neither stick, stone, flesh nor bone and in peters Park he stands alone.
A. The son.
Q. Why is grass like a mouse.
A. Because the cattle (cat'll) eat it.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Nuala Milward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordal, Co. Kerry