School: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
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- 1) What smells most in a perfumer's shop?
Answer :- The nose.
2) Why is a vain young lady compared to a drunkard?
Answer :- Because they are both fond of the glass.
3) What goes around from house to house and never goes in?
Answer :- A path.
4) Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses and all the King's men could not put Hunpty Dumpty together again.
Answer :- An egg.
5) As black as ink, as white as milk, and it hops on the ground like hailstone.
Answer :- A pagpie.
6) Twenty sick (six) sheep went out a gap nineteen fell dead and how many came back?
Answer :- One.(continues on next page)- Informant
- Mrs P. P. Mc Auliffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gooseberryhill, Co. Cork