School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)
- Location:
- Mohober, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 040
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- (continued from previous page)When does a chair dislike you?
When it cannot bear you.
If you were standing beside an ass at the seaside what fruit would you represent?
A (pear/pair)
What has eyes and cannot see, ear that cannot hear and feet that cannot walk?
A dead man.
What is the smallest room in the world?
A Mushroom.
Why is g never short?
Because it ends long
What is the centre of gravity?
The letter V.
Why is a fishmonger greedy?
Because his business makes him (selfish/sell-fish).
Why are silk stockings like mice?
Because they are always running into holes.
In and out and around the house and carries a harrow after it?
A hen and a clutch of chickens.
Spell the red rogue of the world in three letters?
Fox.
What business never progresses?
The stationery business.
Father and mother, sister and brother, running all day and can't catch up to each other?(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ena Fitzgerald
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballintaggart, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- K. Breenan
- Age
- 25
- Address
- Ballintaggart, Co. Tipperary
