School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 359
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- (continued from previous page)When it runs down and strikes one.
What is bought to the table cut but never eaten? A pack of cards.
A fiddler in Cork had a brother, a fiddler in New York, but the fiddler in New York had no brother a fiddler in Cork? The fiddler in Cork was a girl.
I have a little man above in the field if you pull his hand his nose will bleed? A pump.
What is full of holes and yet holds water? A sponge.
What is it that we often say and no one has ever done it yet? Stop a minute.
What is it that has an eye but yet cannot see? A needle.
Why is a knock a the door like a raincoat? Because it is an outside wrap.
The little red cow she stands by the wall, eats all she gets and drinks nothing at all? A fire.
- Informant
- Miss M. Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monroe, Co. Tipperary
