School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- (continued from previous page)Why does not a clock strike thirteen?
Ans., because it has not the face to do so.White house east, red house west you should break the white house to get into the red house?
Ans., an egg.Humpty, Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty got a great fall. All the King's horses and all the King's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again?
Ans., an egg.Long legs, crooked thighs, small head, no eyes?
Ans., a tongs.What has eyes but cannot see?
Ans., a potatoe.Little, little daddy with a long red nose the longer he lives the shorter he goes?
Ans., a candle.A hard working father, a lazy mother and twelve black children?
Ans., a clock.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Frances Roycroft
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Roycroft
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork