School: Carrigaline (C.) (roll number 13513)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teachers: Mrs O' Sullivan Mrs Tully
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- Q There is a little house that a mouse could not live in, all the men in town could not count how many windows is it.?
A A Thimble
Q When is money damp.?
A When it is due in the morning
Q Why does a hen cross the road?
A To get to the other side
Q As round as a marble as deep as a cup, and all the Kings saucers could not pick it up.?
A A moon reflected in a well.
Q What walks with its head down?
A A nail in a man's boot.
Q Headed like a timble tailed like a rat you may not guess, for could you guess that?
A A Pipe.
Q I had a little sister I call her "Peep Peep", she wades over the water so "deep, deep, deep," she climbs up the hill so "high high high," and dear little sister had a very bright eye.?(continues on next page)- Collector
- Peggy Conroy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmoney, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Michael Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Kilmoney, Co. Cork