School: Mungraid (B.) Luimneach (roll number 14409)
- Location:
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Mrs B. Mulroy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0528, Page 011
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- (continued from previous page)Another sticks with a lick.
4. What goes up when the rain comes down. Answer. An umbrella.
5. What is the difference between an engine driver and a school master. Answer. One minds the train and the other trains the minds.
6. What is the difference between a hill and a fill. Answer. One is hard to go up and the other hard to get down.
7. What turns without moving. Answer: sour milk.
8. What is black and white and red all over: Answer: A newspaper
9. What goes around and around the wood and never get into the wood. Answer. The bark of a tree.
10. Why is Ireland so like a bottle. Answer. Because it has a cork in it.
11. The King of Leinster sent to his sister a bottomless vessel to hold her meat. A ring
12. The man that made it never wore it,(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John O' Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Contractor
- Address
- Mungret, Co. Limerick
