School: Baile Sluagh (Ballysloe), Gleann Guail, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 573)
- Location:
- Ballysloe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dubhshláine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0561, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)Why does a cow look over a ditch?
Answer: Because she could not look under it.
What does one half of the moon resemble?
Answer: the other half.
Why does a hen pick a pot?
Answer: Because she could not lick it?
What turns without moving?
Answer:Milk.
In Amsterdam it is common. In Munster it is still; it is always in a Mountain but never in a hill. It is always in timber but never in people. Still it is in me. What is it?
Answer: ~The letter 'm'.
When I'm out I'm fat and stout, when I'm in I'm easy. When I'm down Iike a clown, slobbery wet and greasy.
Answer: A head of cabbage.
The half of a harrow, the whole of a ring, ending in ton and what will it bring.
Answer: Harrington.
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