School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 052
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What is the difference between twice twenty four, and twice four and twenty?
Twenty.
A Jumper of ditches, a clipper of thorns, a wee grey cow with a pair of leather horns?
A rabbit.
A halfpenny wet, and a halfpenny dry, three halfpence, halfpenny, and a halfpenny for by, a halfpenny behind, and a halfpenny before, three halfpence, halfpenny, and a halfpenny more?
Seven pence.
The man who made it didn't want it, the man who bough it didn't use it, and the man that used it didn't see it?
A coffin.
As round as an apple, as flat as a pan, one side a woman and the other a man?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Carraghar
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corderryduff, Co. Monaghan
