School: Baile an Doire (roll number 15156)
- Location:
- Ballinderry, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)A. Because he is an Ass.
Q. If you build a wall from here to Donegal what height would it be?
A. The height of nonsense.
Q. Why is a woman mending stockings a very queer sight?
A. Her hands are where her feet should be.
Q. What did the monkey say when he sat on the needle?
A. That's the point.
Q. White and black and read all over?
A. A Newspaper.
Q. What turns without moving?
A. Milk.
Q. I looked out on my grandfathers window I saw the dead carry the live?
A. A man on a bicycle.
- Collector
- Eilís Ní Siurdáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corradrehid, Co. Roscommon
