School: Paulstown Convent (roll number 1915)
- Location:
- Paulstown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mother Benignus
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- The people used march mallows for curing swellings. Dandelion for consumption.
- 1. What is it everybody seen but will never see again.
Answer Yesterday.2. A little white and round house and it is full of meat, but has no doors or windows to let me in to eat.
Answer. An egg.3. Two blind men fighting, two cripples running for the guards and two dummies said hurry on
Answer. A Lie.4. What is the shyest thing in the world.
Answer. A clock because it always has its hands on its face.5. The man that saw it never wore it and the man that wore it never saw it.
Answer. A Coffin.6. If it takes half an hour to wash a child what will it take to dry it.
Answer. A towel.7. Forty sheep went out in a gap forty white and forty black two and three how many is that.
Answer. Five.(continues on next page)