School: Cruach, Ráth gCaola (roll number 2007)
- Location:
- Croagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. S. Ó Ceallaigh
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His foot.How can venison never be cheap?
Because it is always deer.What two fishes get most frequently trodden upon?
Soles and eels.Twenty sheep went out a gap and twenty more went after that. How many feet have 40 sheep, a shepherd and his dog.
Two feet.Why does a donkey eat thistles?
Because he is an ass.What is that, that never was or never will be?
A mouse's nest in a cat's ear.What is full and holds more.
A pot full of potatoes when you pour the water in.I have a little house and a mouse wouldn't fit in it and all the men in Ireland wouldn't count how many windows in it.
A thimble.As I went out a slippery gap, I met three Christian people. They weren't three women, nor three men, nor three children and what were they?
A man, woman and child.
