School: Tír Dhá Ghlas (Terryglass) (roll number 13436)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 029
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- (1) Sicily sage in her cage, all her children died of age and she's alive yet? An apple tree in a garden.
(2) If a man had twenty patches on his trousers what time would it be? Time to get a new pair.
(3) There was a bitch she had three pups Trip, Trim and Tray, which was the bitche's name? Which.
(4) I went up a hill of wonder. I came down a hill of thunder. I saw twenty four little devils tearing the hill asunder? A harrow.
(5) I went out a slippery slobbery gap I met my auntie Mary she had timber toes an iron nose and upon my word she would frighten the crows? A gun.
(6) When is a cow the roundest? When she is licking her tail.
(7) Jenny into the ditch. Jenny out of the ditch and if you touch Jenny she will bite you? A nettle.(continues on next page)
