School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mícheál Mac Ceit
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- (continued from previous page)Q. Middy-noddy, round body, three feet and a wooden hat.
A. A pot.
Q. What is it, a hard working father, a lazy old mother, twelve little children all like one another?
A. A clock.
Q. If a person eats three quarters of an apple, What time is it?
A. Quarter to eat.
Q. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty got a great fall,
All the King's horses and all the King's men wouldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.
A. An egg.
Q. How many sticks goes to a crow's nest?
A. None, because they are all carried.
Q. What is always in your mouth and you never eat it?
A. Your tongue.
Q. What is the difference between a rainy day and a toothache?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Kathleen Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Patrick Joseph Killeen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon