School: Scoil na mBráthar, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Charleville, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Móráin
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- What is the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison?
One cannot see to go and the other cannot go to see.
What are the three most impossible things to be found?
A shoe to fit the foot of a mountain a sheet for the bed of an ocean, and a towel to wipe the face of the earth.
Which burns the longest a tallow candle or a wax candle?
Neither of them they both burn shorter.
What is it the more you take from it the larger it grows?
A grave.
How many balls of cord would it take to get to the sun?
One if it was big enough.- Collector
- Francie Ryan
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- Ballysallagh, Co. Cork
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- James Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballysallagh, Co. Cork