School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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- (continued from previous page)P. I had a room full and I could'ent take a spoonfull?
S. Smoke.
P. No boy has it, every girl has it and Mrs. Mulligan has it twice in the one spot?
S. The letter L.
P. As I looked out my grandfather's window I saw twenty little divels rooting up the ground?
S. A harrow.
P. I see said the blind man there is a hole in the wall you are a liar said the dummy you can't see it all?
S. A lie.
P. What do you cut to make long?
S. A grave.
P. If one yard of cloth made a suit for a child what would make one for a man?
S. A tailor.
P. Said the child to the father how does it come your my father and I am not your son?
S. Because it was a daughter.
P. There was a weaver in Athlone who has a brother a tailor and the tailor has no brother a waver?
S. The waver is a sister.(continues on next page)
