School: Ardkeenan
- Location:
- Ardkeenan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: John Meares
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 227
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- 1 How many cow's tails would it take to reach the moon?
Answer = One if it was long enough.2 What has a red head and a wooden leg?
Ans a match.3 Why is the letter B like fire?
Ans. because it makes oil boil.4 A little horse on a heap of stones, he eats a bit he always groans?
Ans- a gun.5 What could travel without moving?
Ans - a railway.6 What does a liar do when he dies?
Ans - he lies still.7 What always has its hands to its face?
Ans - a clock.8 His father a Jew man, His mother a Scotch woman, he was born in Ireland, reared in England, and died in America what would you call him?
Ans - a clock.9 The man that made it didn't want it, the man who bought it didn't wear it and the man that wore it didn't know if he wore it or not?
Ans - a coffin.10 What is smaller than a midget's mouth?
Ans - what goes into it.11 What goes to America and back again without stopping?
Ans - a watch in a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridget Grenham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonboley, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Christy Hannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drum, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Kathleen Lennon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Belrea, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Mary F. Meares
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drum, Co. Roscommon
- Collector
- Tommy O Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonboley, Co. Roscommon
