School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)boy doing sums?
A. He lays down three and carries one.
Q. Why is a shoe-maker compared to a dying man?
A. He lays down his "awl" looks to his "end" and prepares his "sole" for the "last".
Q. It never was, it never will be, look at your hand and you will plainly see?
A. None of your fingers is the same length.
Q. How many feet in forty sheep a shepherd and his Dog?
A. Two feet.
Q. A Fiddler in Nenagh had a brother, a Fiddler, in Cork, but the Fiddler in Cork had no brother Fiddler in Nenagh. How could that be?
A. It was a lady Fiddler was in Nenagh.
Q. As I went the steeple I met three Christian People they were neither men, women, not children, and yet they were three Christian people?
A. A man, Woman, and Child.
Q. What part of a cow goes over the Ditch first?
A. "Her Breath"
Q. What is deeper than the sea?
A. A Tailors Thimble because it has no bottom bit.
Q. Headed like a thimble, tailed like a Rat, You may guess for ever, but you cannot guess that?
A. A pipe.
Q. What bird lives nearest to the fire?
A. The Crane.(continues on next page)
