School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 089
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- (continued from previous page)Why did the butter-fly.
Because it saw the jam turn over.
Why is wholesome a queer word.
Because if you take away the hole of it you still have some left.
Why is a fishing rod like a railway.
Because it is no good without a line.
What are the colours of the winds & storm.
The winds rose & the storms blue (blew).
If a tramp had a hundred tares in his trousers what time would it be.
Time he'd get a new one.
Why is a chair like a brave deed.
Because it is no table (notable).
A lepper of ditches a cropper of thorns a little brown cow with two leather horns.
A hare.
Ink ank under the bank ten drawn four.
A woman milking a cow.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup all the men in Ireland could not pull it up.
A well.
What is the shyest thing in the world.
A clock because it always has its hands on its face.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alice Tiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Flagmount South, Co. Kilkenny
