School: Berrings (Measctha) (roll number 4186)
- Location:
- Berrings, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Drisceoil
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- Q. What will you be tomorrow that you cannot be today?
A. Older.
Q. What turns without moving?
A. Butter-milk.
Q. What is the difference between an engine driver and a school-master?
A. One drives the train and the other trains the mind.
Q. When is an apple like a bell?
A. When it is pealed.
Q. What is that which is put on the table, cut and passed but never eaten?
A. A pack of cards.
Q. What is black and white and read all over?
A. The news-paper.
Q. Black as ink white as snow and hops on the road like hailstones?
A. A Magpie.
Q. What day will you never see again?
A. To day.
Q. Up the road, down the road and take the road on your back?
A. A ladder.- Collector
- Kathleen Kent
- Gender
- Female