School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)lump of coal.54. What is the difference between a hungry man and a glutton? - one longs to eat and the other eats too long.55. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty dumpty got a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put humpty dumpty together again - an egg.56. How do you know was Adam a good runner - because he came first in the human race.57. Under fire, over fire and never touches fire - a cake in an oven.58. What is always at the back of the hand? - the wrist.59. The more you take from it the bigger 'tis getting. - a grave.60. What is always a foot? - twelve inches.61. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever but you couldn't guess that - a pipe.62. The man that made it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry